Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence to topline “Rules of Inheritance”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Jennifer Lawrence will star in and produce “The Rules of Inheritance,” for FilmNation, which will finance the film and handle international sales. Lawrence, who just won an Oscar for her performance in “Silver Linings Playbook,” will act for another Oscar winner – Susanne Bier, TheWrap said.

Bier, whose “In A Better World” won the prize for Best Foreign Language film, will direct “Rules” from a script by “Shame” writer Abi Morgan. Bier just directed Lawrence in "Serena," a film in which Lawrence plays a Depression-era woman who cannot bear chlildren.

Morgan’s script for "Rules" is based on Claire Bidwell Smith’s memoir about a young woman (Lawrence) who loses both her parents to cancer as a young adult. Alone and vulnerable, she ventures on a journey where discovers a great deal about her self.

Lawrence has wrapped four different movies this year – “Serena,” “The Devil You Know,” David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” and the next “Hunger Games” film.