Jake Gyllenhaal is headed to HBO for limited series Lake Success

Variety

In what will mark his first regular TV role, Gyllenhaal will star in and produce a limited TV series based on Gary Shteyngart's novel Lake Success. According to Variety, he'll play a "narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal) flees his family, his past, and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own." Gyllenhaal is following in the HBO footsteps of his older sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who stars on The Deuce.