Boyhood director Richard Linklater is set to become the latest indie film-maker to to burnish the career of Hunger Games actor Jennifer Lawrence, after it emerged that Linklater is being sought to direct The Rosie Project, a romantic comedy in which Lawrence is due to star.
According to Deadline, Linklater is the leading candidate to replace the Lego Movie directorial team of Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, who left The Rosie Project to take over the Han Solo standalone film in the Star Wars series. The Rosie Project is an adaptation of the novel by Graeme Simison in which a genetics professor with a list of characteristics of his ideal mate is thrown off course when he meets the apparently-entirely-unsuitable Rosie. Lawrence is attached to play Rosie, but no casting details of the male lead have yet been made public.
