Joel Edgerton in Talks to Join Jennifer Lawrence in Spy Movie 'Red Sparrow'
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The 'Black Mass' star is circling a role in the espionage thriller that will reunite JLaw with 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay' director.

AceShowbiz - Joel Edgerton is in negotiations for 21st Century Fox's espionage thriller "Red Sparrow". The "Black Mass" actor is expected to join Jennifer Lawrence who is tapped to play the lead role in the adaptation of Jason Matthews' novel.

Francis Lawrence is set to serve behind the lens. The movie will reunite him with JLaw after "the Hunger Games" franchise ended. The duo teamed up on the last three installments of the Katniss heroic saga.

"Red Sparrow" takes place in a modern-day Russia in the intelligence bureaucracy. A young woman is drafted against her will to become a 'sparrow,' a trained seductress assigned to operate against a first-tour CIA officer who handles the agency's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers fall into a spiral of attraction and deception that results in her leading life as a double agent.

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