Ross & Lawrence Reteam For "East Of Eden"

Deadline reports that original Hunger Games director Gary Ross, and star Jennifer Lawrence are poised to reunite for the latest and long planned adaptation of East of Eden.

Based upon author John Steinbeck's classic novel about two brothers who compete for the attention of their farmer father in California around the time of World War I.

Lawrence would play Cathy Ames, the boys’ estranged mother.

Ross will also pen the adapted script as well

Brian Grazer is producing the film.

In 2004 director Ron Howard and writer Paul Attanasio got the ball rolling on making the film only to stall out. And then in 2009, director Tom Hooper and writer Christopher Hampton made a second attempt to no avail

The story was first put on screen in 1955 by the great Elia Kazan starring James Dean and Richard Davalos. It hit the small screen in 1981 as a TV Mini-Series