Jennifer Lawrence is attached to star in Steven Speilberg's latest project.
Warner Bros is closing a deal for the rights to photojournalist Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War, which documents her time in Afghanistan post the 9/11 invasion.
There was a bidding war for the rights of the novel after an excerpt was featured in The New York Times, with bidders including The Weinstein Company and Working Title.
Deadline reports that Warner Bros is closing the deal, with Steven Speilberg attached to direct and Lawrence to take the starring role.
Addario is a Pulizter Prize-winning journalist who travelled to Afghanistan to document the victims of conflict. Her work shows how Afghans suffered under the Taliban regime, the Iraqi war and victims of genocide in Darfur.
