Jake Gyllenhaal will star in M. Night Shyamalan's next movie, which will be a supernatural romance co-written with The Notebook author

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Trap, Split, and The Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan has set his next project, Deadline reports – and it's something a little different for the filmmaker.

Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the movie, which will be a supernatural romance thriller based on a story that Shyamalan has come up with an unlikely collaborator: The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks. The duo are independently working on a screenplay and a novel, respectively, that are both based on the same love story and characters. Intriguing…

As for Gyllenhaal, his other upcoming projects include Guy Ritchie's action thriller In the Grey, which also stars Henry Cavill, Eiza González, and Rosamund Pike, and The Bride!, written and directed by his sister Maggie, which retells the story of the Bride of Frankenstein. More recently, he starred in last year's Apple TV Plus series Presumed Innocent and the Prime Video action movie Road House.

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