The two actors star in a love story after the Oscar-winning “Silver Linings Playbook,” this time in a period drama

Sep 12, 2014 19:57 GMT  ·  By
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence play a couple in the love story "Serena"
   Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence play a couple in the love story "Serena"

It's not often in Hollywood that a leading man and a leading lady meet in two separate films, especially for love stories, but it seems that Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper can pull it off, because after appearing together in the “Silver Linings Playbook” romance, they now hit the screens with a new love story – “Serena.”

The first trailer for the movie is out and it tells the tale of a man and a woman who fall in love and set out to form a timber empire together. Things take a turn for the worse when Serena (Lawrence) learns that George (Cooper) has a child by another woman.

The movie is a period drama and it's based on a novel by Ron Rash. It follows two newlyweds as they set out from Boston to the woods of North Carolina to build a logging empire in 1929. Serena proves herself to be a strong wife, often independent and level-headed, able to take on a man's job.

When Serena finds out that she can never have a child, she sets out to kill the woman who bore a child to George before their marriage. Soon after, she begins to suspect that George is protecting his illegitimate family and from there on things start to unravel.

The script is written by Christopher Kyle and the director's chair is occupied by Susanne Bier. The film was shot on location in the Czech Republic and it's set to be released in Europe on October 24.