Jennifer Lawrence to star in Real Housewives-inspired crime mystery

Jennifer Lawrence is set to star in and produce a whodunit titled The wivespresenting a Real Housewives-inspired crime mystery.

While most of the details are under wraps, it is known that Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize finalist’s play Circle Jerk, will write the script. The film is described as heavily influenced by Real Housewives franchise, which follows the lives and drama surrounding a group of wealthy women in a certain town.

The film, which Lawrence will produce alongside Justine Ciarrocchi for her Excellent Cadaver company, and Jeremy O Harris and Josh Godfrey, was acquired by Apple Original Films in a “highly competitive situation,” it reported. variety. The wives is co-produced by Apple Studios and A24, which also previously worked on the 2022 drama Cobbled roadstarring Lawrence.

The silver linings playbook star has previously spoken about her love and knowledge of Real Housewives franchise several times, narrating It is! News at the 2024 Golden Globes at which the cast will provide The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Her Oscar for making “the best reality TV finale, I think, ever.”

“I’ll give mine! I don’t care,” Lawrence said. “They deserve!”

“My jaw was on the floor, I didn’t even text – I didn’t even look at my phone!”

In 2014, she said Vanity Fair that she loves “my Real Housewives” while talking about her favorite reality shows.

“I love Intervention, New York Housewives — and Beverly Hills, New Jersey and Atlanta Housewives. I mean, I love them all, but Miami—oh my God! Miami is really special.”

The Oscar winner also stated in 2022 that Real Housewives of Beverly HillsErika Jayne is “bad”.

“I would go so far as to say, um, he needs a publicist. Like, as soon as possible,” she added.

Lawrence was last seen in Sony’s 2023 sex comedy No resentment and previously produced the documentary Bread and roseswhich followed the lives of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban after they regained control in 2021.

She is also set to star in an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel die my lovecentered on a woman who experiences extreme mental health issues after giving birth in a remote French village.