JENNIFER LAWRENCE is set to star in the next film from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, a mafia story called “Mob Girl,” the studio Makeready announced Wednesday.

Lawrence will star in and produce the film alongside Justine Polsky via their production company Excellent Cadaver. Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty,” “The Young Pope”) will direct and produce alongside Wildside’s Lorenzo Mieli.

Spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, “Mob Girl” is based on a true crime story by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Teresa Carpenter written in 1992 about the life of Arlyne Brickman (Lawrence), a mob wife-turned police informant. Angelina Burnett (“Halt and Catch Fire,” “The Americans”) is adapting Carpenter’s book, “Mob Girl: A Woman’s Life in the Underworld.”

Lawrence is currently shooting an as-yet-untitled film, playing a U.S. solider in Afghanistan.(SD-Agencies)