She is already a big hit on the big screen and now Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence is hoping to achieve the same kind of success off screen too as a director.
Jennifer Lawrence is a well known talent and her film credentials have seen her play many diverse roles and show off her expertise as an actress and now, she feels ready to take on another challenge – calling the shots.
Lawrence has told Entertainment Weekly about her desire to join the likes of Ben Affleck, Angelina Jolie and other actors who have also turned their creative brains to directing, which she will do for a dark comedy based on actual events titled PROJECT DELIRIUM.
“I’d also like to direct a comedy,” she says. “I have wanted to direct as long as I’ve wanted to act. I just don’t talk about it because I’d rather just do it. I’ve signed on to direct something called ‘Project Delirium’ — it’s based on this article about mental warfare in the ’60s, like an acid experiment gone terribly wrong. It’s funny, I’ve wanted to direct since I was 16 and always thought I should start making steps towards that. If I had tried to do it earlier, I wouldn’t have been ready. Now I actually feel ready.”
The 2012 New Yorker article she’s referring to, titled Operation Delirium by Raffi Khatchadourian, focuses on the chemical warfare experiments conducted by Colonel James S. Ketchum at the Edgewood military facility in Maryland from 1960 to 1969 in which he tested over 5000 volunteer U.S. soldiers with dangerous “incapacitating agents” including LSD, BZ and marijuana. The goal was to try to figure out a means to neutralize an enemy without killing them, although most of the Edgewood test subjects were not checked in on in the ensuing years for lasting mental damage caused by the experiments.
Lawrence is dominating the big screen at the moment in the final film from THE HUNGER GAMES franchise – THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 and she is currently filming the sci-fi romance PASSENGERS with Chris Pratt, and will reprise her role as Mystique in next summer’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE.
