Jennifer Lawrence Joins Adam McKay’s Next Movie “Don’t Look Up”

Jennifer Lawrence at The Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Breakfast in 2017
Jennifer Lawrence at The Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Breakfast in 2017. Photo by John Salangsang/BFA/REX/Shutterstock (9263264ch)

After taking a short break from acting, Jennifer Lawrence is ready to get back in the saddle and she has several exciting projects lined up. One of them just happens to be Adam McKay’s upcoming Netflix movie Don’t Look Up.

This intriguing comedy will start shooting this April, and it will tell the story of two low-level astronomers who embark on a media tour to warn the world that there’s a giant asteroid approaching Earth and threatening the survival of mankind.

Don’t Look Up will be McKay’s first directorial effort since his Oscar-nominated Dick Cheney biopic Vice, and he can’t wait to join forces with Lawrence to bring this story to life.

“I’m so thrilled to make this movie with Jen Lawrence. She’s what folks in the 17th century used to call ‘a dynamite act. And the fact that Netflix sees this movie as a worldwide comedy sets the bar high for me and my team in an exciting and motivating way,” said the Academy Award-winning filmmaker.

Interestingly enough, this isn’t McKay’s only project that Lawrence is attached to star in. The Hunger Games actress is also expected to play the lead role in Bad Blood, the story of disgraced biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.