Jennifer Lawrence may re-team with ‘Hunger Games’ director

No deal is put in place just yet, but she is expected to reunite with Francis, who directed her in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” and “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2”.

It was previously reported during the San Diego Comic-Con that Francis was eying involvement in the action thriller.

The filmmaker is apparently now close to signing a deal for the project, which once had David Fincher and Rooney Mara
as potential helmer and female lead respectively.

“Red Sparrow” is set in contemporary Russia and centres on a state intelligence officer named Dominika Egorova, who is
assigned against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress in the service.

During her first assignment, Dominika strikes up a relationship with her mark, a CIA officer named Nathaniel
Nash, and in a charged atmosphere of trade craft, deception, and inevitably, a sexual attraction threatens their careers
and the security of America’s most valuable mole in Moscow.

Justin Haythe is tapped to re-write a script by Eric Warren, while Steven Zaillian and Garrett Basch are on board as producers.