Lawrence will produce with Justine Polsky under their production company Excellent Cadaver. My Brilliant Friend producer Lorenzo Mieli and The Americans writer Angelina Burnett are also on board with the production.

So, what’s Mob Girl about?

Arlyne Brickman (Lawrence) is a Jewish woman growing up on the Lower East Side of New York City. She eventually becomes involved in the glamorous and flashy lifestyle of New York mobsters.

She soon begins to run errands for the “wiseguys” she dates, and ends up getting in on the action.

But, after being raped and beaten, Arlyne’s mafia connections leaver her to fend for herself. She becomes a police information and a witness in the government’s case against the Colombo vrime family.

It sounds absolutely gripping, and we can’t wait to see what Lawrence does with this tough role.

Jennifer Lawrence will produce and star in tense true-crime story Mob Girl, and it sounds incredible