Jennifer Lawrence and Steven Spielberg Will Team Up on Lynsey Addario's Memoir 'It's What I Do'
Warner Bros. look to be in pole position to land the rights for Lynsey Addario's memoir 'It's What I Do' which has captured the attention of Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Lawrence.
It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life Of Love and War, is the account by photographer Lynsey Addario of her time documenting war zones and scenes of severe strife and unrest across the globe. The book has been a hot property, and Steven Spielberg is signed up to direct the movie adaptation with Jennifer Lawrence also signed up play Addario.
Deadline first reported the Warner Bros. deal, which is close to completion. The outlet also revealed what other party where interested in the book, which was; Darren Aronofsky (Directing), Margot Robbie (Starring) and The Weinstein Company (Producing) on behalf of George Clooney and Grant Heslov.
Below is the description of Addario's book, 'It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War:
Addario has worked as part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team, and is a McArthur Genius grant recipient; she has worked in nearly every major war zone and many areas of global strife since 2001.
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It’s her work, but it’s much more than that: it’s her singular calling.
Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she would often find herself making—not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself.
Addario finds a way to travel with a purpose. She photographs the Afghan people before and after the Taliban reign, the civilian casualties and misunderstood insurgents of the Iraq War, as well as the burned villages and countless dead in Darfur. She exposes a culture of violence against women in the Congo and tells the riveting story of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war
