If you track Jennifer Lawrence’s career with an analytical eye, it’s clear she has completely outgrown the standard studio-blockbuster blueprint. Through her production outfit, Excellent Cadaver, she’s been ruthlessly engineering a slate that balances unpretentious, character-driven dark comedies with high-concept, director-forward psychological thrillers.
She is currently deep in the trenches of a massive creative run, collaborating with legendary auteurs and stepping into some incredibly dark, demanding spaces. Here is exactly what she is executing in front of the camera right now.
1. What Happens at Night (In Production)
The biggest, most technically staggering project on her immediate radar is a massive collaboration with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Based on the 2020 Gothic mystery novel by Peter Cameron, the film began principal photography in the Czech Republic and Switzerland on February 24, 2026. Lawrence stars as “The Woman” opposite DiCaprio’s “The Man” a married American couple who journey to a surreal, frozen European border town to adopt a baby, only to watch their own identities slowly fragment under the isolation.
The gear train behind this is pure high-caliber cinema: written by Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal), shot by cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, and distributed by Apple Original Films. DiCaprio even noted that Scorsese had them deep-diving into Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo as a primary tonal blueprint before the cameras started rolling.
2. Die My Love (The Next Horizon)
Shifting into raw, unhinged domestic madness, Lawrence recently wrapped her starring role in Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love.
- The Blueprint: Co-produced by Martin Scorsese and adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s brutal novel, the film is set in an isolated forgotten rural landscape.
- The Core: Lawrence plays Grace, a woman pushed to the absolute brink of psychosis as she struggles to balance the crushing weight of newfound motherhood with severe postpartum isolation. It’s an aggressive, pitch-black psychological portrait that promises to utilize Ramsay’s signature tactile, visceral visual style to its absolute limits.
3. The Blockbuster Return: Sunrise on the Reaping
For the mainstream arena, the industry was thrown into a loop with the confirmation that Lawrence is locked to step back into the Arena for the highly anticipated adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ upcoming prequel/sequel ecosystem, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. She’s set to reprise her iconic role as Katniss Everdeen in a narrative structure that looks to bridge the historic gap between Haymitch Abernathy’s 50th Hunger Games and the original timeline.
