Ross also explained his decision not to direct Catching Fire, the second installment in the Hunger Games franchise. PHOTOS: 35 of 2014's Most Anticipated Movies
I’d love to play Cathy Ames.’ So then I called Brian Grazer, who had been a producer on various incarnations of East of Eden, and said, ‘I would love to do this and I think Jennifer would love to play Cathy Ames.’ The rights had just become available again and we set it up at Universal.” Then she gave it to Jennifer and Jennifer ‘This is incredible. Justine read it and thought, ‘Oh my God, this is the greatest novel’ - Justine is wildly into literature and is very, very literate and is a good friend of my kids as well as mine. Then I gave it to Justine Ciarrocchi, who is Jennifer’s best friend.
And I read it along with them, because I’d never read the book, I’d only seen the movie. Russell, Judd Apatow, John Singleton, Alan Horn, William Friedkin and Sherry Lansing.Įxplaining his involvement, Ross - whose films include Big (as co-writer, with Anne Spielberg) and Seabiscuit (as writer-director), said: “My kids had actually read it as their summer reading at high school. Others who have taken part in the series include Alfonso Cuaron, David O. Ross spoke to students at Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television in the continuing interview series The Hollywood Masters, moderated by THR’s Stephen Galloway. But it’s definitely something that we intend to do.” Part of that is Jennifer’s schedule as well. “It’s one of the things that is sort of on my plate, I’m interested in doing,” he said. Just when it shoots will depend on her crammed schedule and also Ross’s, as he weighs whether to make that his next film (and his first since The Hunger Games.) The picture is in development at Brian Grazer's and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, with no start date yet set. And that’s what we’re talking about now.” “We may break it in half, into one generation and the next.
Ross helped launch Lawrence into global stardom with The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence may star in not just one but two movies adapted from John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel East of Eden, writer-director Gary Ross said April 12.