Los Angeles April 6 (IANS) Actor Jake Gyllenhaal will produce and act in "Welcome to Vienna" an adaptation of author Kevin Wignall s upcoming book "To Die in Vienna".
Focus Features has picked up film rights to the upcoming novel by Wignall reports hollywoodreporter.com.
Gyllenhaal will essay Freddie a civilian surveillance contractor who interrupts a break-in at his apartment while he s spying on a Chinese academic in Vienna. The intruder escapes but then comes back and tries to kill Freddie making the American contractor a hunted man. Freddie s only hope for survival is that his pursuer doesn t know the past he s running away from.
Gyllenhaal is also set to appear alongside Rene Russo in an untitled Netflix horror-thriller to be directed by Dan Gilroy. The project will be based on big-money artistes and mega-collectors.
Wignall s novel "To Die in Vienna" will be published in June.
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