Jennifer Lawrence to star/produce Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino's next movie

An adaptation of Hannah Kent’s true-crime novel Burial Rites

Following a relatively busy 2017 promoting Mother! and filming X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Jennifer Lawrence has announced her next project.

The actor will lead and producer an adaptation of Hannah Kent’s true-crime novel Burial Rites, with Luca Guadagnino directing the movie. Variety initially published the news.

Lawrence will play Agnes Magnusdottir, who was sentenced to death for killing two men and burning down their home. The story takes place before her execution — the last to ever take place in Iceland — centring on Agnes forming surprising last-minute romantic bonds.

Director Guadagnino recently helmed the Armie Hammer-starring Call Me By Your Name, an Oscars-frontrunner that was nominated multiple times at the Golden Globes.

Hunger Games producer Allison Shearmur and Rogue One’s Justine Ciarrocchi will produce alongside Lawrence, with Sony’s Tristar releasing.

“Luca is a rare talent. His movies capture an exquisite sense of place inextricably linked to the emotional state of the complex characters he creates,” TriStar president Hannah Minghella said in a statement.

“I can’t imagine a more thrilling partnership than Luca and Jennifer coming together to bring Agnes’ beautiful and tragic story to life.”

Lawrence will next appear in the spy-thriller Red Sparrow early next year.