If the deal works, the 26-year-old "Trainwreck" actress will get a chance to work again with her critically acclaimed indie drama "Short Term 12," director Destin Daniel Cretton, reported The Wrap.
Jennifer Lawrence was had signed on to the project in late 2013 to both star in it and produce it.
An adaptation of Jeannette Walls' best-selling memoir, "The Glass Castle" is about a young girl who comes of age in a dysfunctional family led by a mother and father who attempt to divert the children from poverty.