Jake Gyllenhaal Set To Star in Series Adaptation of A SUSPENSE NOVELIST'S TRAIL OF DECEPTIONS
Annapurna is teaming up with Janicza Bravo, the writer and director behind the upcoming Zola, to write and direct a series adaptation of Ian Parker’s 2019 New Yorker article, A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions. Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star in the project.
Parker’s story explores the “complex life of former book editor Dan Mallory.” The series will follow “an unreliable narrator who nurses brain tumors he does not have and mourns family members who are not dead while preying on people’s sympathy to get away with almost anything.”
Bravo will co-write the pilot with Brian Savelson. Bravo said in a statement:
“What may have started out as my dog ate homework turns into my mother died of cancers, my brother took his life and I have a double doctorate. Our protagonist is white, male and pathological. There is a void in him and he fills it by duping people. He’s a scammer. The series examines white identity and how we as an audience participate in making room for this behavior. Getting to partner with Annapurna and Nine Stories is a gift and I am most thrilled for what lies ahead.”
This certainly sounds like an interesting story and it will be a great project for Gyllenhaal to jump into and be a part of. This is going to be a fascinating character for him to play, and I’m sure he’ll end up doing an awesome job.
Source: Deadline