Warner Bros. is reteaming with Maggie Gyllenhaal, the actress-filmmaker behind the studio’s high-profile disappointment earlier this 12 months, The Bride!
The studio has optioned the Rachel Kushner novel Creation Lake for Gyllenhaal to put in writing and develop as a directing automobile. Gyllenhaal would additionally produce.
The novel tells of a spy who disrupts a farming collective in France solely to develop second ideas about her life. It’s described as tackling concepts of activism, paranoia, and nihilism within the type of a philosophical thriller.
One of many extra acclaimed books of 2024, the novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and longlisted for the Nationwide Guide Award and the Pen Faulkner Award for fiction. It was additionally named one of many high books of that 12 months by The New York Occasions, The Atlantic, Kirkus Opinions, amongst different retailers.
The return of Gyllenhaal into the Warners fold is a testomony within the religion the studio, specifically film co-chief Pam Abdy, has within the budding filmmaker.
Bride! Was a giant swing by the studio and a giant wager on Gyllenhaal. She had solely directed intimate drama and competition participant The Misplaced Daughter earlier than being handed the chair to sort out an bold, Thirties-set retelling of The Bride of Frankenstein. Her imaginative and prescient attracted Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Annette Bening, Penelope Cruz (husband Peter Sarsgaard and brother Jake Gyllenhaal pitched in, too).
However the film, launched in March this 12 months after a deep post-production course of, flopped, grossing $24 million worldwide on a finances of $90 million.
Nonetheless, Warners believes in Gyllenhaal as a filmmaker sufficient to strive once more.
