Sources tell Variety that Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal are in discussions to star in fashion designer Tom Ford’s thriller “Nocturnal Animals,” his second film as a director after 2009’s “A Single Man.”
This is in the early days as no financial offers have been made yet but insiders say it is headed in that direction.
Ford will write and direct and also produce along with George Clooney and Grant Heslov through their Smokehouse Pictures banner.
Based on the novel by Austin Wright titled “Tony and Susan,” the plot is described as a “story inside a story,” with the first part following a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion.
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