Variety is reporting that Nicholas Hoult has signed on to play J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, in the upcoming biopic Rebel in the Rye.The film, which will be written and directed by Danny Strong (Empire), is based on Kenneth Slawenski’s biography J.D. Salinger: A Life and “will explore [Salinger’s] rebellious youth, […]