Jennifer Lawrence Might Reteam With MOCKINGJAY Director For Sexy Spy Thriller RED SPARROW

With the caveat in place that no deal has been made yet, Deadline reports that mega-star Jennifer Lawrence is "orbiting" a new movie called Red Sparrow, which would potentially reteam her with Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. The film is an adaptation of a spy novel by author Jason Matthews, and here's the synopsis of the book:

In present-day Russia, ruled by blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency’s most important Russian mole.

Spies have long relied on the “honey trap,” whereby vulnerable men and women are intimately compromised. Dominika learns these techniques of “sexpionage” in Russia’s secret “Sparrow School,” hidden outside of Moscow. As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and—inevitably—forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate’s game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC.

J-Law as a badass undercover agent who uses her sexual prowess to get what she wants? I imagine 20th Century Fox executives are tripping over each other to see who can greenlight this first. If this moves ahead, the director won't be the only person Lawrence has worked with involved with this film: Justin Haythe is rewriting the script by Eric Warren Singer, who wrote the screenplay for American Hustle.

Lawrence, who directed every Hunger Games movie except for the first one, isn't even officially signed on himself yet, and the outlet cautions that it could be a while before Lawrence takes the role. She's fairly busy, after all, with the sci-fi film Passengers, a romance called The Rosie Project, a war photographer movie called It's What I Do, writing a movie with Amy Schumer, as well as promoting her upcoming movie Joy and the final installment (or is it?) of The Hunger Games franchise. We'll keep you posted on Red Sparrow as it develops further.