One of the best things about American Crime Story: The People V O.J. Simpson, Sarah Paulson, is set to star in The Rebel In The Rye, alongside Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Brian d’Arcy James, Victor Garber and Hope Davis.
The film is an adaptation of Kenneth Slawenski’s biography about J.D. Salinger.
Variety reports that the movie will cover ‘Salinger’s rebellious youth, the bloody front lines of World War II, enduring great love and terrible loss, a life of rejection to the pages of The New Yorker, and the PTSD-fueled writer’s block that led to the birth of his iconic book “The Catcher in the Rye.”’ Paulson, who is are to be in demand following her turn on the aforementioned FX series, will play Dorothy Olding, the agent who believed in the young Jerry Salinger from his earliest short stories and was fiercely loyal to him throughout his entire career.
Shooting on the film is already underway in New York City with Danny Strong at the helm.
