The show is based on Ian Parker’s famous New Yorker article, A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions…

Zola director Janicza Bravo has signed up for a big TV adaptation of Ian Parker’s legendary New Yorker article, A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions, and Zodiac and Spider-Man: Far From Home actor Jake Gyllenhaal is now attached to star.

Parker’s 2019 piece for the New Yorker details the strange and unsettling journey of erstwhile book editor Dan Mallory. Via Deadline, the series “will follow an unreliable narrator who nurses brain tumours he does not have and mourns family members who are not dead while preying on people’s sympathy to get away with almost anything.”

Annapurna’s Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Sammy Scher, and Susan Goldberg are onboard as executive producers.

“What may have started out as ‘my dog ate homework’ turns into ‘my mother died of cancers, my brother took his life and I have a double doctorate’,” said Bravo. “Our protagonist is white, male and pathological. There is a void in him and he fills it by duping people. He’s a scammer. The series examines white identity and how we as an audience participate in making room for this behaviour. Getting to partner with Annapurna and Nine Stories is a gift and I am most thrilled for what lies ahead.”

It’s unclear when the series will begin filming or whether it will be given a different title before production gets underway.

More soon.