Eden and Rites J. Law

Jennifer Lawrence really enjoyed meeting and working and getting to know her Hunger Games director Gary Ross.

I remember reading somewhere that, for a while there, the actress had a photo of herself with Ross as the screensaver on her cell phone.

So I guess they tight, and it should come as no surprise the two want to team up again. Or that they will.

Oscar-winning J. Law is going to star in Ross’ adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic families-in-rivalry novel East of Eden.

Futher, Lawrence and the director are also looking to work on another adaptation, that of Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites, the Iceland-set story of a woman who, charged with a brutal murder, is sent away to an isolated farm to await execution.

So maybe J. Law still has Ross on her phone? Seems the man does have a plum spot in her heart....

Anyway, I love actor-director partnerships like this one. They get me excited about the possibilities.

Photo: TheMagazine.ca.