It looks like Jake Gyllenhaal is setting his sights on producing a new documentary. It was just revealed that the actor and producer is teaming with Bold Films for his first documentary feature, which will be based on photojournalist Chris Hondros.
“We’re actually doing our first documentary now and it’s through Jake Gyllenhaal,” Bold Films’ CEO Gary Michael Walters told Simon Thompson at Forbes. “He asked us to do it and he’s very passionate about this story.”
“We are financing our first documentary for Nine Stories, Jake’s production company,” Walters added. “It’s a great story about a photojournalist named Chris Hondros. His best friend was doing a documentary about him and during the course of taping of the documentary Chris got killed in Libya during the rebel wars. That will be our first documentary. And you got that story first, it’s an exclusive.”
Hondros was a photojournalist who was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News Photography category. He was killed April 20, 2011 while on assignment in Libya. He was fatally wounded in a mortar attack by government forces in Misrata while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war. Photojournalist Tim Hetherington was also killed in the attack, and two other photographers were left wounded.
Bold Films are behind some of the best films of the last few years, including Drive, Whiplash, Nightcrawler and Only God Forgives. Their mission statement is “to produce original studio quality films which have worldwide commercial appeal.” We think they’re already doing quite well in achieving that.
We’ll keep you updated as we learn more about Jake Gyllenhaal’s new documentary project. Click here for Simon Thompson’s full article over on Forbes, which also touches on Gyllenhaal’s next drama Stronger, which is about the Boston Marathon bombing.
