- AN ENEMY
Jake Gyllenhaal is negotiating to take dual roles in Denis
Villeneuve's upcoming film entitled, An Enemy, Variety reports. The film is
based on the novel, "The Double" by Jose Saramongo, which is
officially described as follows:
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| Jake Gyllenhaal |
“Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history
teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video.
Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is
awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that
the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks
exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before,
mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly.
Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue
his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical
story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and
individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent
in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.”
Gyllenhaal, who last appeared in Duncan Jones' Source Code,
would play both parts with an adapted screenplay by Javier Gullón (El rey de la
montaña).
Production is expected to begin immediately as An Enemy is
planned to shoot before Villeneuve's Prisoners, which recently confirmed to
have Hugh Jackman in the lead.
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