Academy Award-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (“La Grande Bellezza,” “The Young Pope“) and Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence (“Don’t Look Up,” “Silver Linings Playbook“) are teaming up for an untitled biopic about the trailblazing Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers. Mengers crashed the Hollywood boys club of agenting in the ’60s and ’70s with an outsized personality to go with her client list that included actors like Barbra Streisand, Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, Cher, Joan Collins, and many more.
Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo, and John Logan wrote the screenplay. The project sparked an $80 million bidding war and $20 million of that potentially going to Lawrence.
Deadline reports that Apple is expected to win an auction to secure global rights to the movie and is currently in advance talks after beating out other suitors such as Netflix and Original Films.
Apple has been throwing a lot of money around to nab various high-profile film projects such as spending $200 million on Matthew Vaughn‘s spy flick “Argylle” led by Henry Cavill (“The Witcher,” “Mission: Impossible – Fallout“), Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller “Killers of The Flower Moon,” shelling-out over $120 million to land “Emancipation” from Antonie Fuqua and Will Smith, and the Tom Hanks post-apocalypse sci-fi film “Finch” helmed by Miguel Sapochnik (“Game of Thrones,” “House of The Dragon“).
Flush with cash, streaming services spending more and more to land awards caliber original projects is an upward trend that likely won’t slow down anytime soon.
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Lawrence’s next feature films will be Adam McKay‘s disaster comedy “Don’t Look Up” co-starring with fellow Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “The Revenant“) that will be released by Netflix and the untitled military drama from director Lila Neugebauer at A24 Films. The Mengers movie will likely be next for Lawerence, given the money involved with this deal.
