With Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Armie Hammer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Michael Shannon already aboard, A Single Man’s Tom Ford is still not finished gathering the cast for his second directorial effort,** Nocturnal Animals**. He now has Isla Fisher joining the extensive roster.
Ford based his script on Austin Wright’s 1993 novel Tony And Susan. Split into two chunks, one part of plot follows a woman (Adams), who receives a book manuscript and a note asking for her opinion on it, sent by her ex-husband, who she left 20 years before. In the other, Gyllenhaal plays a man whose family holiday turns violent.
Taylor-Johnson is aboard to play a mysterious man who may pose a threat to Gyllenhaal’s family, while Shannon will be the detective who investigates the incident. Hammer will be Adams' current husband, and Fisher has signed up to play Gyllenhaal's wife, who travels with him and is in the car during an altercation he has that puts their family in danger.
We'll likely next see Fisher in Kevin Greutert's Blumhouse horror Visions (although it doesn't yet have a UK release date), and she's also part of Sacha Baron Cohen's Grimsby, which is out on March 4 next year. She's most recently been filming the comedy Keeping Up With The Joneses, with Gal Gadot, John Hamm and Zach Galifianakis. That one's due on April 1.
Nocturnal Animals gets underway shortly, for a release sometime next year.