Following the recent popularity of her 2023 comedy No Hard Feelings, Jennifer Lawrence has a number of upcoming movies on the horizon for 2024 and beyond. The celebrated actress who rose to fame with her breakout role as Katniss Everdeen in 2012’s The Hunger Games has also established herself as a formidable comedic talent, having starred in blockbuster comedy movies such as David O. Russell’s Silver Lining’s Playbook (2012) and Adam McKay’s Dont Look Up (2021). Lawrence has also starred in several installments of the X-Men franchise as Raven/Mystique including 2019’s Dark Phoenix.

Despite her versatile acting range in action, drama, and comedy, the 33-year-old Lawrence has only acted in just over 25 feature films. It’s unclear whether Lawrence will ever reprise her best-known roles in The Hunger Games and X-Men movies in some capacity, as the actor currently has no confirmed ties to either franchise. The Hunger Games appears to be taking a completely new direction with its upcoming prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which Lawrence has stated she would be interested in returning to. As for X-Men, she personally expressed that she wouldn’t be returning to the franchise, but her list of upcoming confirmed movies still sounds just as exciting.

Burial Rites

Lawrence currently has five feature films that are listed as in production on IMDB, one of which is Burial Rites from acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Suspiria). Lawrence is set to star as Agnes in the true-story drama film written by Gregory Pierce based on the novel by Hannah Kent. Set in Iceland in the year 1828, Burial Rites follows a young woman who is charged with the violent murder of her former employer and awaits her execution on an isolated farm, where she lives with a modest family who is at first terrified by her.

Burial Rites was initially announced in 2017 but has not received many updates since. Given that Guadagnino currently has five projects listed as in production including an adaptation of The Lord of the Flies and an untitled Apple project with Rooney Mara attached, it’s hard to say exactly when fans can expect Burial Rites to release. The earliest date for a Burial Rites premiere would likely be late 2024.

East of Eden

Jennifer Lawrence is also billed to star in a remake of 1955’s East of Eden, one of the two films that made James Dean an international phenomenon. Originally based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, East of Eden is rooted in the religious allegory of Cain and Abel as told through the perspectives of two families, the Hamiltons and the Trasks. As the only known actor attached to the Gary Ross project, Lawrence will star as Cathy Ames, the wife of the main protagonist Adam Trask and the mother of two boys. Ross and Lawrence are set to collaborate for the first time since the original Hunger Games, which Ross wrote and directed.

Sue

Another anticipated project from Jennifer Lawrence is Sue, a biopic about the real-life Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers. Mengers was one of the most iconized Hollywood agents who worked during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and represented prominent actors and directors such as Burt Reynolds, Steve McQueen, Barbara Streisand, and dozens of additional stars of that time. With Paolo Sorrentino (The New Pope) and Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) set to co-direct, Sue has the potential to feature many current actors portraying classic stars of late 20th-century Hollywood with Lawrence in the leading role.

Mob Girl

Lawrence is also attached to another Paolo Sorrentino project titled Mob Girl. Lawrence will play the real-life Arlyne Brickman, the girlfriend of a prominent mobster who becomes a police informant and ends up testifying against the powerful Colombo crime family. Mob Girl, currently in pre-production, is based on the true-crime story Mob Girl: A Woman’s Life in the Underworld written in 1992 by Teresa Carpenter and adapted for the screen by Angela Burnett (The Americans, Hannibal). Lawrence will also produce the project, a great indication of her apparent passion for the story and the role which has the potential to be one of the best of her career.

Die, My Love

Another Lawrence project currently in pre-production is Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love, which is set to chronicle a woman with psychosis living in the remote countryside of France. From its premise alone, Die, My Love appears to be a deep exploration of a person with great internal conflict, which could end up being Lawrence’s darkest and most challenging role yet. Ramsay also wrote the screenplay based on the book of the same name by Ariana Harwicz, which has been described as similar to the works of David Lynch and John Cassavetes. Lawrence and Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here) are set to tackle complex mental illness in Die, My Love despite Ramsay herself calling the project a “dark comedy” (via Variety).

Untitled Jennifer Lawrence/Amy Schumer Project

Jennifer Lawrence and longtime friend Amy Schumer have been working on a screenplay together since they first announced it in 2015, but the project still remains in the development stages as of late 2023. Lawrence did offer an update in June 2023 according to The Hollywood Reporter, saying on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live “if you know anything about me and Amy, it’s that we are lazy”, which is why there has yet to be forward progress on their collaborative effort. It’s uncertain whether the Lawrence-Schumer project will ever come to fruition, especially considering that it’s been nearly nine years since their creative juices initially started flowing on their joint project.

Zelda

Not to be confused with The Legend of Zelda video game franchise, Lawrence is also attached to portray the legendary literary figure Zelda Fitzgerald. Little is known about the biopic project that is currently still in the development stages other than Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) is set to direct. The real-life Zelda Fitzgerald was the wife of acclaimed novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald who famously wrote The Great Gatsby and was often thought of as his muse despite being a writer herself. Howard and Lawrence’s Zelda will likely chronicle the success of the Fitzgerald duo during the 1920s and 1930s before the true-story drama and tragedy strike.

It’s What I Do

Lawrence is also attached to another biopic directed by Steven Spielberg titled It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War. Originally announced in 2015, Lawrence was linked to star as the real-life Lynsey Addario, an international Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who has won many distinguished awards for her photography throughout the course of her life. There has not been much movement on the project since it was initially announced that Warner Bros. won the rights to Addario’s memoir back in 2015. While the project has not lost its potential, it might be the most uncertain of Jennifer Lawrence’s upcoming film projects.