playing Sue Mengers, a legendary super agent who donned a caftan like a suit of armor and wielded a joint like a mace while trying to get the best deal possible for her A-list clients. Paolo Sorrentino, an Oscar-winner for “The Great Beauty,” is attached to direct from a script by Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo and John Logan.
But Netflix and Apple are concerned with subscriptions and nothing supercharges those like buzz. Mengers is a juicy role for Lawrence, who will next be seen in Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. Sorrentino’s next project, coming-of-age drama “The Hand of God,” is also set up at the streamer and will be getting an awards season push.
Bette Midler memorably played Mengers on Broadway in the one-woman show “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers,” which was also written by Logan . Dyan Cannon also played a role of a barrier-breaking agent that was heavily inspired by Mengers in the 1973 mystery “The Last of Sheila.” In her heyday, Mengers represented the likes of Candice Bergen, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen, Ryan O’Neal, and, most famously, Barbra Streisand .
Puck News broke the story of the heated auction for the JLaw project. Spokespeople for Apple, Netflix and Lawrence did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
I read my late friend Brian Kellow's Mengers bio and I cannot see JL, as good as she can be, as a zaftig Jewish girl from Queens who becomes a powerful agent. I'd go with a British actress like Winslet before JL.
All she does is sell tickets! 🎟❤️
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