Jake Gyllenhaal is reteaming with his Prisoners and Enemy filmmaker Denis
Villeneuve for a third project. The duo is set to star and direct,
respectively, the big screen adaptation of Scandinavian author Jo Nesbo's crime
novel The Son.
In
his early thirties, Sonny Lofthus has spent the last
dozen years in prison, serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange,
he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin—and the unexpected stream of fellow
prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His
addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a
corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison
staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest—all of them focused on keeping him
stoned and jailed, and all of them under the thumb of Oslo's crime overlord,
the Twin. When Sonny learns some long-hidden truths about his father he makes a
brilliant escape, and begins hunting down the people responsible for the
hideous crimes he's paid for. But he's also being hunted, by the Twin, the
cops, and the only person who knows the ultimate truth that Sonny is seeking.
The question is, what will he do when they've cornered him? - Goodreads
"Denis is one of the most inspiring filmmakers
working today, and partnering with him on The Son represents everything that Jake and I
strived for when we launched the company. Provocative and edgy material in
collaboration with a visionary storyteller. We were attracted to The Son because beneath its dark and violent
exterior is a universal story about a man who seeks the truth," said Riva Marker
the head of Gyllenhaal's Nine Stories production company, which is producing the film with Bold
Films.
Gyllenhaal's Nine Stories
has just wrapped David Gordon Green's ("Pineapple Express") Stronger,
a docudrama in which Gyllenhaal plays a working-class
man caught in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
The company is also developing a film about Lee Yopp, a former football coach
turned theater director who was hired by the U.S. Army to stage a music pageant
at Fort Bragg with Alex Timbers (Mozart in the Jungle) set to direct, and Antoine
Fuqua's The Man Who Made It Snow, a drama based on David Mermelstein's
best-selling novel with Gyllenhaal attached to star.
Nine Stories is also in post-production on a
documentary about Christopher Hondros, a photographer killed in 2011 while on assignment
in Libya, and is also developing an anthology series for A&E, the first
season of which is set to focus on cult leader Jim Jones.
Source - THR
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