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Jake Gyllenhaal in Supernatural Romantic Thriller from M. Night Shyamalan & Nicholas Sparks(!)

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Jake Gyllenhaal in Supernatural Romantic Thriller from M. Night Shyamalan & Nicholas Sparks(!)

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Jake Gyllenhaal in Supernatural Romantic Thriller from M. Night Shyamalan & Nicholas Sparks(!)

Will the pining lovers see dead people?

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Published on January 29, 2025

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Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio in Spider-Man Far From Home

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Ever wondered what a movie that mashed together The Notebook and The Sixth Sense might look like? If so, we might have an answer with the new feature in the works from M. Night Shyamalan—the writer-director behind spooky, unsettling films like the aforementioned Sixth Sense as well as Knock at the Cabin and Split—and Nicholas Sparks, the novelist behind many books, including The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and The Wish.

According to Deadline, Shyamalan and Sparks are collaborating on a “supernatural romantic thriller,” and are producing both a feature script and a corresponding novel to go with it. How does that work? Deadline gives us a vague answer that “both projects will be based on the same concept and set of characters, but tailored to their respective mediums.” So… it sounds like it will be like any feature adaptation of a book would be, except this time the script and the novel appear to be written concurrently by Shyamalan and Sparks respectively. Are they talking to each other while they write? Who knows!

One A-list actor is digging what Shyamalan and Sparks are throwing down: Jake Gyllenhaal (Road House, Donnie Darko, and pictured above as Mysterio in Spider-Man: Far From Home) is already on board to star as the presumed love interest in the movie.

No news yet on when the film will go into production or when the novel will make its way to a bookshelf near you. icon-paragraph-end

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