After crafting one of the best films of the decade thus far with the mind-trip Enemy, Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal re-teamed for Prisoners, and now it looks like they will reunite once again. Although the director is busy through next year with his sequel to Blade Runner, it’s been announced they’ll eventually work together again on an adaptation of a Jo Nesbø‘s novel The Son.
Once set to be a mutual helming debut for Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin, the story tracks a man imprisoned after accepting blame for a crime; after his father is killed, the protagonist resolves to break out of prison, seek revenge, and atone for his other past transgressions. While previously set up over at Warner Bros., Gyllenhaal’s company Nine Stories and Bold Films are now teaming for the adaptation, and no writer has been set yet.
Considering how busy both Villeneuve and Gyllenhaal currently are, we shouldn’t expect this one soon, but it looks to have all of the drama that sounds perfectly fitting for a reunion. As for Nesbø, his book The Snowman is currently being turned into a film by Thomas Alfredson and starring Michael Fassbender. Meanwhile, Villeneuve is putting the final touches on his sci-fi drama Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, which was once titled Story of Your Life, but might be going under a different title now, and we have a strong guess at what it likely is.
Last day of the Montreal final mix for our wonderful (title tbd) Denis Villeneuve movie pic.twitter.com/GFg7DWp5Ug
— Joe Walker (@huckabaloo) May 22, 2016