Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Source, Brokeback Mountain) will team up with producer John Lesher on the set of The Lost Pilot * ( The Lost Airman ). The picture will be an adventure story based on the real events of the World War II . The tape is produced by Amazon Studios , which bought the rights to the popular science book Seth Meyerowitz titled "The Lost Pilot: The Real Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France" . Gyllenhaal will not only play the main role in the film, but will also produce it with Lesher and his company Le Grisbi Productions . Based on recently declassified material, the booktells the incredible story of Arthur Meyerowitz , an American bomber pilot whose plane was shot down over the French city of Vichy in 1943. Hiding in a French village, Meyerowitz meets Marcel Talliander , the founder of the legendary French Resistance group, Morange. With his help, the hero hides from the Gestapo for six months, and then, thanks to a carefully organized plan, escapes. John Lesher , who along with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and James Scotchdopole won the Academy Award for Birdman, is currently working on the White Boy Rick drug drama featuring Matthew McConaughey. But Jake Gyllenhaal will soon be seen in the fantastic film Okja, which took part in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival . And also in a drama titled Stronger, which tells the story of the tragedy that happened at the Boston Marathon in 2013. The film was the first project produced by Gyllenhaal Nine Stories . * - preliminary translation. The Topic of Article: Jake Gyllenhaal to become a military pilot. |