Oliver Stone Finds New Project, Oscar-Nominated Leading Lady (Jennifer Lawrence) to Go With It

You have to hand it to Oliver Stone - over the last decade, he's been lucky to have a film that's turned a profit at all (and the enormous losses on "Alexander" easily swallow the tiny wins with "W." and "World Trade Center"), but he keeps on finding people to finance his insanity films.

Now, Deadline reports that he's in talks with Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence ("Winter's Bone") to star in his next film, an adaptation of the Don Winslow novel "Savages."

Lawrence has been getting offers left and right since "Winter's Bone" hit early last year. She'll next be seen painted blue for "X-Men: First Class" (the reward for good work in this town), and also has a role in the ever-delayed Jodie Foster-directed, Mel Gibson-starring film "The Beaver."

Here she would play O, the "Jules and Jim"-style girlfriend of both Ben and Chon, who grow and sell pot in Laguna Beach. Oh, and Chon's an ex-Navy SEAL who finished a tour of duty in Afghanistan, only to return with top-quality weed and absolutely no regrets or remorse about anything he did overseas. Good times.

Stone has been meeting with such stars as Leonardo DiCaprio, Aaron Johnson (the "Kick-Ass" kid), Tom Hardy, James Franco, and Garrett Hedlund ("Tron: Legacy") for the roles of Ben and Chon, as well as Benecio Del Toro for the part of a Mexican drug cartel enforcer who kidnaps O. Does this ever stop being insane?

The whole crazy affair was adapted by Winslow and Shane Salerno in an independent development process. Now that all the hard work has been done, several studios are chasing the result - an entertaining-as-hell sounding story from a bestselling, critically acclaimed novel starring a young, talented, beautiful Oscar nominee.