Bold Films and Nine Stories have announced that they have acquired the rights to remake the Danish suspense thriller The Guilty, with Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star.
The Guilty revolves around a police officer under investigation who has been demoted to desk-work at an emergency call centre. When he receives a terrified phone call from a kidnapped woman, he must battle his internal demons in order to save her.
The original film premiere at Sundance earlier this year and is Denmark’s Official Entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. You can read our review here.
“We saw The Guilty at Sundance and were blown away. Möller’s film masterfully weaves tension into an acute character study, and is exactly the kind of material that Nine Stories is excited to develop. We are honored to be able to adapt it for American audiences alongside Bold Films,” said Gyllenhaal and his Nine Stories producing partner Riva Marker.
Gyllenhaal will next be seen in Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw, and also takes on the role of the villain Mysterio in Marvel and Sony’s superhero sequel Spider-Man: Far From Home.
