How American Sniper Is Reshaping The Film Industry — cinemablend.com

But which in-development projects are clearly piggy backing off of American Sniper’s gross? Well, as it happens, some of Hollywood’s most prestigious talent have realized that this is the perfect opportunity to dust off their war-torn scripts and hand them back to their agents and studio bosses. First off, there is Steven Spielberg. You’ve probably heard of him already. He’s got a beard and spends most of his days polishing off Academy Awards. He’s decided to bring along another rather prominent name of the modern movie scene for his adaptation of It’s What I Do, casting none other than Jennifer Lawrence to play the movie’s central subject. The Oscar-winning actress will star as Lynsey Addario, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her photos from the Iraq War and her work giving voice to the victims of the Middle-Eastern conflict. It smacks of the kind of movie that the Academy fawns over.

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