The Hunger Games crew including Jennifer Lawrence to work on adaptation of Hannah Kent's debut novel. Katniss (played by Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) in a scene from film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Jennifer Lawrence tripped up the stairs at her last Academy Awards outing. THE blockbuster team behind The Hunger Games are working on a big screen adaptation of Australian author Hannah Kent's debut novel. Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and director Gary Ross will reunite for Burial Rites. The acclaimed novel is set in Iceland and follows the story of the last two people executed in Iceland in 1829. The man and woman were beheaded for a murder committed on a remote farm. With no prisons in the country, the woman is held for the winter before her execution at a farm where she lived as a young girl and the owners of the property are drawn in by her tale. The drama is rife with Academy Award potential, with Lawrence scoring her first Academy Award nomination at the age of 20 for starring in a similarly harsh film - Winter's Bone. She won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role this year for Silver Lining's Playbook. There could be some time before Burial Rites goes into pre-production however, with Ross first scheduled to direct Peter And The Starcatchers (a take on the Peter Pan legend) while Lawrence is finishing up work on the final two Hunger Games films: Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2. The second film in the franchise - Catching Fire - is released next month.