Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy are set to star together in Dominic Cooke’s unexpected New York romance drama “Insomniac City”.
The film is based on writer/photographer Bill Hayes’ 2017 memoir and follows Hayes (Bailey) arriving in New York City from San Francisco in the wake of his partner of sixteen years suddenly dying.
As he begins to rebuild his life, he falls unexpectedly in love with both the city and celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks (Nighy) – a man nearly 30 years his senior and who had been largely celibate for nearly four decades. The pair were romantically linked for six years until Sacks’ passing.
The story is described as an “intimate and uplifting portrait of grief, hope, community and second chances, and of the remarkable possibility of finding love when it is least expected.”
Hayes and Cooke will co-write the script while Bailey, Troy Lum, Andrew Mason, Mike Goodridge and Gabrielle Tana will produce.
Sacks authored the book “Awakenings” which became the famed Oscar-nominated film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
Bailey is currently filming the cycling thriller “Pumping Black” in Italy with Natalie Portman. He’s expected to return for another “Jurassic World” at some point, and has become a topic of conversation on social media in recent days over why he isn’t in consideration for James Bond despite seemingly being highly suitable.
Source: Variety
