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Eric Warren Singer, who co-wrote a previous Lawrence film, American Hustle, has pitched the script, which Sony snapped up and started developing. Lawrence is down to play the role of Marita Lorenz, who met and started an affair with him in 1959 when she was just 19. After becoming pregnant and having an abortion, Lorenz left Cuba and joined anti-communists in the USA, getting recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency for an assassination mission. A year later, the young woman returned to Cuba with Central Intelligence Agency backing, but confessed the poisoning plot to Castro after telling the prime minister she still loved him. She has also claimed to have been involved in the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. Huh.

The actress will be playing the role of Fidel Castro's lover Marita Lorenz.

Sony Pictures, moving aggressively, picked up the project from the Oscar-nominated scribe in a competitive situation.

Add Cold War-era femme fatale to the ever-growing list of Jennifer Lawrence's depictions of real-life women.

Ange Giannetti will oversee for the project for the studio.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Marita" will follow Castro and Lorenz's interesting and rocky relationship. She appeared in one of the most unendurable misfires of the year - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 - and also scored yet another Oscar nomination for David O. Russell's Joy, perhaps the most misunderstood yet tremendously fascinating film to be released thus far by the talented filmmaker. As THR previously reported, "Fast & Furious 8" is hoping to shoot on the island nation.

Lawrence's next movie is "X-Men: Apocalypse", which will open in USA theaters on May 27. Lawrence is attached to star in Dear Fidel.