The most recent film that Steven Spielberg had directed with a female actress taking a lead role was 1989's The Color Purple, which introduced Whoppi Goldberg to the big screen. After a long stretch of more than 25 years, the director will be collaborating with much sought-after actress Jennifer Lawrence in a harrowing biopic of photojournalist, Lynsey Addario.
Addario, is an award-winning photojournalist who deals with out of the ordinary images as subjects, which are perilously obtained in war-torn Middle East and Africa. The 41-year old American is also renowned for her sincere depiction of the marginalized demographic from these ravaged areas, particularly the women and children. In a recent interview in correlation with her memoir entitled, "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life Of Love And War", Addario stressed that she wants her audience not to be sickened by the reality of what her medium conveys but to earnestly associate themselves with the truth.
"I want them to stop, what's happening? It's a mother and child." she was also quoted in that Time interview.
This hard-hitting memoir, will have the Oscar-winning Lawrence portray a role that will immersed her in a dangerous excursion to then Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratiec Republic of Congo and in Libya which will account of a ghastly kidnapping of Addario and three more journalist under Gaddafi's army.
Warner Bros. and film producer Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) encountered a vast land mine before the smoke cleared, of which they finally grabbed the rights for Pulitzer prize winning book. The rights for the biopic were said to went for whooping $500,000 against $2 million. What really made it possible was the involvement of Spielberg, who miraculously accepted to direct the film despite his busy schedule.
Presently, Spielberg has produced "Smash" and "Extant", tv series wherein both have female characters playing a lead role.
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