Jennifer Lawrence to make Burial Rites with Luca Guadagnino Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence first became attached to an adaptation of author Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites back in 2013 with her The Hunger Games helmer Gary Ross attached to direct. Now Variety is reporting that director Luca Guadagnino, hot off the Oscar buzz for Call Me by Your Name, will direct Lawrence in the true crime period piece for Sony’s TriStar Pictures. Published in the summer of 2013, Burial Rites is officially described as follows: In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men.