( CNN ) Warner Bros. has won a bidding war for the movie rights to `` It 's What I Do : A Photographer 's Life of Love and War , '' a memoir by Lynsey Addario . Jennifer Lawrence is attached to star in a package that also includes director Steven Spielberg and producer Andrew Lazar . See more Hollywood 's 100 Favorite Films . Addario is a war photographer who has spent time in war zones ranging from Afghanistan to the Congo to Somalia . She is one of the few females in a predominantly male club and was also at one point kidnapped . Wynn Wygal , an exec at Lazar 's Warners-based banner Mad Chance Productions , was instrumental in bringing in the book . This is the second major project to be thrown in development centering on a real-life figure to which Lawrence is attached . In January , she and her `` Hunger Games '' director Francis Lawrence boarded `` The Dive '' , the true love story of Cuban diver Francisco 'Pipin ' Ferreras and the French-born diver Audrey Mestre . Lawrence is currently shooting Joy , in which she portrays Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano . Spielberg , Lazar and Warners first teamed to make `` American Sniper '' before Spielberg left the project over budgetary concerns . This look at war will be a take two . ©2015 The Hollywood Reporter . All rights reserved .
The pair are teaming up for a film based on popular memoir . It 's the second bio-based project recently for Lawrence . Spielberg was originally attached to `` The Dive ''