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“Crime 101“ isn’t the only Don Winslow crime pic on the way at Amazon MGM Studios. Deadline reports that the studio will also adapt “Collision,” a short novel from Winslow’s upcoming collection “The Final Score,” with Jake Gyllenhaal set to star. Gyllenhaal also produces the project with Josh McLaughlin via his Nine Stories banner, as well as The Story Factory‘s Shane Salerno.
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“Collision” sounds like a role tailor-made for Gyllenhaal’s “Road House” era. Winslow’s novella follows a devoted husband and father sent to prison after a terrible mistake. But once he gets out, the man learns why he was protected in prison and is sent on a life-changing mission.
Gyllenhaal adds “Collision” to a growing list of upcoming films that also includes M. Night Shyamalan‘s “Remain“ and Guy Ritchie‘s “Road House 2.” The actor also as Ritchie’s “In The Grey” on the way, in post-production now, as well as his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s “The Bride!.” Gyllenhaal will also star in and executive produce “Presumed Innocent” Season 2 over at Apple TV+.
As noted earlier, Amazon MGM Studios is firmly in the Don Winslow business with “Collision” and “Crime 101.” Expect them to be in the hunt for the next Winslow project shopped around Hollywood: the title story of “The Final Score,” with bidding likely to start after the 4th of July holiday. Sony also has an adaptation of Winslow’s “City On Fire” in the works, with Austin Butler attached to star.
Bart Layton directs and adapts “Crime 101,” a tense cops-and-robbers tale set in California that stars Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, Monica Barbaro, Barry Keoghan, Nick Nolte, and Jennifer Jason Leight. Amazon and Working Title will have that pic ready for audiences on President’s Day weekend 2026.
So, is Hollywood about to enter its Don Winslow era? Hollywood has adapted his stuff before, in 2007 with “The Life And Death Of Bobby Z” and again in 2012 with “Savages” (Winslow co-wrote that adapted screenplay). But with “Collision,” “Crime 101,” “City On Fire,” and “The Final Score” on the way, Winslow looks poised to become a major creative resource for studios over the rest of the 2020s. Don’t be surprised if Tinsel Town sources even more from the prolific crime fiction writer over the next half-decade.
Stay tuned for more casting news and a director for “Collision.”
