Jennifer Lawrence’s projects just keep lining up, with news that A24 has optioned Paul B. Rainey’s dark sci-fi comedy graphic novel Why Don’t You Love Me and have tapped Lawrence to star. Robert Funke, best known for his co-creating the dark comedy On Becoming a God in Central Florida, is on board to write the feature adaptation.

Released in 2023, the graphic novel follows a couple struggling with an unhappy marriage. In Rainey’s work, “Claire and Mark are in the doldrums of an unhappy marriage. She doesn’t get out of her bathrobe and chain-smokes while slumped on the couch. Mark has lost track of the days and can’t get the kids to school on time. They’ve lost interest in family and have pizza and Chinese food delivered every night. Mark sleeps on the couch and has trouble remembering his son’s name. He feels like a fraud at work but somehow succeeds. Claire stalks an ex-boyfriend. How could he have left her to this life?

“Claire and Mark are both plagued by the idea that this is all a dream. Didn’t they have different lives? When reports of an imminent nuclear war come on the radio, the truth begins to dawn on them: This is not the life they chose.”

No news yet on who might star opposite Lawrence in the feature, nor who might be tapped to direct. Lawrence will also produce the pic via her banner, Excellent Cadaver. Midsommar filmmaker Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen and Emily Hildner of Square Peg will also produce Why Don’t You Love Me? Rainey will executive produce.