US actress Jennifer Lawrence delights her fans with a leading role: In “Bad Blood” she will play the former entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.
Los Angeles – Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence (31, “Silver Linings”) will play former star entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, who is currently on trial in California for fraud.
The Apple Original Films studio has now backed the planned film “Bad Blood” by US director Adam McKay (“Vice – The Second Man”, “The Big Short”), reported the industry journals “Hollywood Reporter” and “Deadline”. com “on Tuesday.
Holmes wanted to revolutionize the pharmaceutical and health industries with her blood test company Theranos, but the promise turned out to be a big bluff. The 37-year-old was once considered a great hope for innovation in the tech stronghold of Silicon Valley. Holmes had left the elite Stanford University in 2003 at the age of only 19 to found the start-up. She was hailed as a successful self-made billionaire, but the steep ascent was followed by a spectacular crash: In 2015 reports in the “Wall Street Journal” raised serious doubts about Theranos’ technology.
The film is based on the book of the same name by journalist John Carreyrou. McKay, who won the screenplay Oscar in 2016 for the satire “The Big Short”, last brought Lawrence in front of the camera for the star-studded Netflix satire “Don’t Look Up”, which opens at Christmas. dpa
