These here are obviously ancient photos of Jake Gyllenhaal (from 2001 to be precise) but they'll have to do because we done used up every photo ever taken of him at this point, and also this news itself is ancient news, getting an update.
In 2016 I first told you that Jake was going to star in an HBO miniseries adaptation of
Jo Nesbø's book The Son for his
Prisoners and
Enemy director Denis Villenueve.
And then in 2020 I updated that news, saying ta-dah, twas on the calendar again. Well perhaps this will be lucky post number three and it will actually happen this time, because
it's being reported that Villenueve is planning on shooting the damned thing finally, really for real they say, this very fall (thx Mac).
Of course with Villenueve's sequel to
Dune coming out in November I have to admit I have no idea where he'd find the time -- especially now that there's word that
Dune 2 is a middle-chapter and there will be a third movie. But perhaps ol' Denis really needs to wedge in a
Dune-break for himself, and for that I wouldn't blame him. I guess we'll see. I don't know how you shoot an entire miniseries in like, two weeks -- one imagines it would take some time, and it seems like he will have a lot of responsibility selling Part 2 globally and such over this fall. Whatever. I got to post these pictures of Jake. We all win. All that said it also feels like Jake might be too old for the lead role in
this book, which is about "a promising wrestler" who tries to unravel a mystery surrounding his father's suicide. Maybe Jake will play the father now? Cue Daddy commentary.
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