Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper team up again for 'Serena'
(Read article summary)Jennifer Lawrence will play the titular character, an ambitious wife to Bradley Cooper's character George Pemberton.
Darren Aronofsky (at one point) had his eye on directing Serena, an adaptation of Ron Rash’s Shakespearean tragedy-style historical novel, with Angelina Jolie in the lead. That’s no longer happening, as the project is instead being adapted for the big screen and helmed by Susanne Bier – a Danish filmmaker whose resume includes broody dramas such as Things We Lost in the Fire and the Foreign Language Oscar-winning In a Better World.
However, the Serena adaptation has still managed to secure two hot Hollywood talents, in the form of The Hangover star Bradley Cooper and Oscar-nominee Jennifer Lawrence (this year’s The Hunger Games) – a duo who, as it were, is fresh off working on director David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook together.
