LOS ANGELES -- After working together on UKPrisonersand more recently, Bong Joon Ho's monster movie Okja, Jake Gyllenhaal has signed on to star in Paul Dano's directorial debut Wildlife, a period drama that will co-star Carey Mulligan, it was announced Friday.
Dano and his longtime girlfriend Zoe Kazan adapted Richard Ford's 1990 novel, which follows a teenage boy who witnesses the decay of his parents’ marriage after their move to Montana.
Gyllenhaal will join Dano as a producer on the project, while Kazan is among the executive producers. Production is scheduled to start in early November.
"In Richard's book I saw myself and many others. I have always wanted to make films - and have always known I would make films about family," said Dano, who scored two Oscar-nominated actors for his first film behind the camera.
Gyllenhaal next stars opposite Amy Adams in Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, which opens on Nov. 18. He's recently wrapped Okjaand David Gordon Green's Stronger, and he's currently filming Daniel Espinosa's sci-fi movie Lifewith Ryan Reynolds.
Mulligan, whose credits include Shameand Drive, recently wrapped the indie drama Mudbound.
Variety first reported the casting news.
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