Jennifer Lawrence is set to star in Paolo Sorrentino’s Mob girl.
Lawrence will also produce the big-screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Teresa Carpenter true-crime story.
The story in Carpenters’ 1992 book spans across the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s following a woman who became a real-life mob wife and then later a police informant.
Variety, which was first to report the news, writes, “The film follows Brickman who grows up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City where she’s drawn to the glamorous and flashy lifestyle of New York mobsters. Soon after, she begins dating ‘wiseguys’ and running errands for them, before getting in on the action herself — eventually becoming a police informant and a major witness in the government’s case against the Colombo crime family.”
“Seeing this story from a woman’s point of view is a fresh and exciting approach to telling a classic mob story,” says Makeready Founder and CEO, Brad Weston. “We could not imagine a more perfect team of stellar filmmakers, with Jennifer starring in a tour de force role and Paolo at the helm, to bring Arlyne’s strength and unique perspective to life on screen.”
Sorrentino is directing the film while Angelina Burnett is adapting the script.
