A forthcoming novella from Don Winslow will be adapted as a movie, with Jake Gyllenhaal on board to star, Deadline reports.
Amazon is developing a film based on “Collision,” one of six novellas in The Final Score, which is scheduled for publication on September 16. In a starred review, a Kirkus critic praised the collection’s “gritty little gems.”
Publisher William Morrow says the novella tells the story of “the one terrible, momentary mistake that a devoted family man makes, [sending] him to prison and on a ‘Collision’ course between the man he wants to be and the killer he’s forced to become to survive.”
Gyllenhaal will star in and produce the film; there is no word yet on a screenwriter or director.
In 2022, Winslow announced that he would be retiring from writing to focus on political activism. Then, in May, he said he was coming out of retirement, telling Deadline, “I don’t know if I am back for one more book or more. One day I just started writing again and I couldn’t stop.”
Winslow’s books have been adapted for the screen before. His novel The Death and Life of Bobby Z formed the basis for a 2007 film, and Savages was adapted into a 2012 movie.
A film based on Winslow’s City on Fire, starring Austin Butler, is currently in the works, as are feature adaptations of his novel The Winter of Frankie Machine and the novella “Crime 101.” His Power of the Dog trilogy of novels is being made into a TV series by FX.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
