Gyllenhaal Gets Young for Lose Friends Film???

No sooner do we report that author and drama critic Toby Young will take to the stage next month after being “let down by a proper A-list actor at the 11th hour” than we hear further news that the stage play he’ll star in based on his best-selling memoir How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is all set for the big screen. According to the Sunday Times, Young has clinched a £800,000 deal for the £50 million movie that Miramax are hailing as the next Bridget Jones. In the play’s premiere run last year, the bald and diminutive journalist was played by the dashing Jack Davenport. Who will play him on screen? Step forward Hollywood thinking girl’s heartthrob Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, The Day After Tomorrow on screen, Whatsonstage.com Award winner for This Is Our Youth on stage). Young commented to the Sunday Times: “It is the most flattering piece of casting since Colin Firth played Nick Hornby in the film version of Fever Pitch.” Let’s hope the film producers aren’t let down last-minute like the stage producers…

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