Scottish film director Lynne Ramsay, known for her four feature films over a 24-year career, is set to return to the director’s chair. Following her acclaimed thriller You Were Never Really Here in 2017, which starred Joaquin Phoenix, Ramsay is now working on Die, My Love. This upcoming project features Jennifer Lawrence as a protagonist who grapples with losing her sanity amidst marriage and motherhood. Robert Pattinson is reportedly in talks to join Lawrence in a currently undisclosed role
Sources told Deadline that Pattinson and Lawrence may team up for the film whose script was co-written by Ramsay with Enda Walsh. There is currently no official release date set. Lawrence, together with Justine Ciarrocchi, Martin Scorsese, and Andrea Calderwell, will executive produce the movie under her Excellent Cadaver label.
Die, My Love is an adaptation of an Argentine novel by Ariana Harwicz. The novel’s anonymous narrator feels isolated in the world despite having a husband, a kid, a widowed mother-in-law, and a lover.
As an introduction, the narrator describes herself as “A nutcase. A foreigner. Someone beyond repair.”
If not quite insane, Harwicz’s narrator is at least extremely unpleasant: she is burning ants, cursing at her child, yelling for no apparent reason, and stuffing a doll into the rear seat of her vehicle in order to give the impression that she is leaving her child by themselves.
Motherhood is represented as some kind of trap, including one’s wants being consumed by those of another person. It may cause the reader to question whether the narrator is experiencing postpartum depression.
This narrator/mother will be played by Lawrence but Pattinson’s role is unconfirmed. We could generally assume him to play the husband or the lover.
Pattinson’s career took off when he was cast alongside John David Washington in the lead role of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. He went on to get the lead in Matt Reeves’ The Batman after that. Pattinson’s performance in the movie so impressed Warner Bros. that they cast him in Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, which releases next year.
The announcement of Pattinson’s appointment coincides with the speculation that he will return in The Batman Part II, which is now slated to make its theatrical premiere exclusively in autumn 2026, as per ComicBook.com.
Although the novel takes place in rural France, Ramsay’s film will take place in the United States and centres on a marriage that ends in divorce, regardless of both partners being deeply in love.
“Everyone’s had mental health issues through COVID. So it deals with that. But it deals with it, I think, in a really funny way,” Ramsay told Variety last year.
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