Jake Gyllenhaal to Star in Series Adaptation of New Yorker Article Directed by Janicza Bravo

Jake Gyllenhaal is gearing up to star in “A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions,” an adaptation of a New Yorker article that will be directed and written by Janicza Bravo.Deadline reported that Bravo, the writer and director behind the upcoming “Zola” feature, is teaming with Annapurna to write and direct the series adaptation of journalist Ian Parker’s article, which was published in February 2019.

The article focused on the life of former book editor Dan Mallory.

Per Deadline, the series will center on an unreliable narrator who nurses brain tumors he does not have and mourns family members who are not dead while preying on people’s sympathy to get away with almost anything.“What may have started out as my dog ate homework turns into my mother died of cancer, my brother took his life, and I have a double doctorate,” Bravo told Deadline.

“Our protagonist is white,

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