Jake Gyllenhaal is to star in a drama about an American who joins the fight against Islamic State in Syria.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film, an adaptation of Seth Harp’s Rolling Stone article The Anarchists vs the Islamic State, will see the actor reunite with director Daniel Espinosa, with whom he recently worked on sci-fi horror movie Life.
Life is released this week and stars Gyllenhaal as an astronaut battling a parasitic organism aboard a spaceship.
The film has received mixed reviews, with the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calling it a “a serviceable, watchable, determinedly unoriginal film”.