Rhys Ifans, who plays the villainous Lizard in "The Amazing Spider-Man," is in negotiations to join Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Susanne Bier's adaptation of Ron Rash's novel "
Serena," which has also added Lawrence's "Hunger Games" co-star Toby Jones.
Story unfolds in the mountains of 1920s North Carolina, with Cooper playing a timber baron and Lawrence playing his wife
Serena, who battles the government to save their lands and engineers the murder of her husband's illegitimate son.