EXCLUSIVE: In a major deal that was highly competitive with multiple bidders, Amazon has bought the rights to Collision, a short novel in Don Winslow‘s upcoming story collection The Final Score for Jake Gyllenhaal to star in and produce with his Nine Stories partner Josh McLaughlin and The Story Factory’s Shane Salerno.
Collision tells the harrowing story of a devoted husband and father with a great life who makes one terrible mistake that sends him to prison where he must learn how to survive, but that’s only the beginning. When he finally becomes free he learns why he was protected in prison and is a sent on a mission that will change him forever.
This is a reunion with Winslow and Amazon. Amazon and Working Title will be releasing Crime 101, based on another Winslow short story, on President’s Day weekend 2026. The film is written and directed by Bart Layton and stars Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, Monica Barbaro, Barry Keoghan, Nick Nolte and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Gyllenhaal recently starred in Doug Liman’s Road House for Amazon. Following that movie’s record-breaking debut on Prime Video with over 50 million viewers in its first two weekends, Amazon MGM Studios signed the Oscar nominated actor’s production label Nine Stories to a first look deal. Guy Ritchie is directing Road House 2 which Gyllenhaal is starring in and producing with McLaughlin.
The Final Score, a heist story is the title story from the collection and is expected to be shopped to buyers after the July 4th holiday.
Stephen King tweeted last week to his 7 million X followers that Winslow’s story collection was “the best crime fiction I’ve read in twenty years” which spiked sales. The book will be released by Harper Collins on September 17.
After exec producing and starring in Apple’s Presumed Innocent and seeing the critically acclaimed series become one of Apple’s most-watched dramas of all time, Gyllenhaal is back on board to exec produce a second season. Gyllenhaal recently starred in Othello with Denzel Washington at Broadway’s Barrymore theater which had the top-grossing (eight performance) play in Broadway history. Gyllenhaal also counts three Golden Globe nominations and three Tony Award nominations (as both producer and actor).
Winslow, a widely acclaimed writer, has won major writing awards all over the world and is work has previously attracted Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Mann, Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone, James Mangold, Scott Frank, Steven Zaillian, Rian Johnson, Matt Damon, David Mamet, Chris Storer and Austin Butler, among others.
Gyllenhaal is represented by WME and Carlos Goodman. Winslow is represented by The Story Factory and CAA.
