Having handed over directorial duties on Bright 2 to Louis Leterrier, David Ayer has now added a new Netflix project to his slate in Six Years, an adaptation of the 2018 novel from Harlan Coben (The Stranger).
The Amazon blurb for Six Years reads:
Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd.
But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for… but she is not Natalie – and Jake’s world is turned completely inside out.
As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can’t be found or don’t remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart – and who lied to him – soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction.
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Ayer is currently in post-production on his new film The Tax Collector, a gritty urban street drama in the vein of End of Watch and Harsh Times which reunites the director with his Fury star Shia LaBeouf.
