Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in Talks for "Nocturnal Animals".
Sources tell
Variety that
Amy Adams and
Jake Gyllenhaal are in discussions to star in fashion designer
Tom Fords thriller
Nocturnal Animals, his second film as a director after 2009s A Single Man.
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.
The second element follows the actual manuscript, called Nocturnal Animals, which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.
Sources say actors were immediately drawn to the project when the script hit the market, and Adams was the first to sign on, as she was interested in the part of Susan, with Gyllenhaal pushing hard for the male lead.