Jake Gyllenhaal is making the visit to M. Night Shyamalan for the writer-director’s next feature, which will share a story with a new original romance novel by Nicholas Sparks. The original narrative is a collaboration between Sparks and Shyamalan, with the former writing a book and the latter writing a screenplay independently.

The film marks Shyamalan’s second time making a feature from literary material, after adapting Paul Tremblay’s horror novel “The Cabin at the End of the World” into the 2023 apocalyptic thriller “Knock at the Cabin.” Whether or not this new project technically qualifies as an adaptation is a bit up in the air, since Sparks and Shyamalan are tailoring the same story to their respective mediums in parallel efforts.

Shyamalan and Ashwin Rajan are producing the film through their Blinding Edge Pictures. Sparks’ regular producers Theresa Park and Marc Bienstock are also on board. Sparks serves as executive producer.