Jake Gyllenhaal Starring in Sports Pic ‘Play By Play’

Jake Gyllenhaal attends the Academy’s 2017 Annual Governors Awards in The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, CA, on Saturday, November 11, 2017. Credit/Provider: Aaron Poole / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.

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Jake Gyllenhaal will star in a new sports movie called ‘Play by Play’.
Chris McCoy wrote the script.
Amazon MGM Studios is backing the project.

It looks like Jake Gyllenhaal is becoming a company player for Amazon MGM Studios, as the company has bought yet another project for him to star in and produce via his Nine Stories production label.

The latest is a new script by writer and occasional script doctor Chris McCoy (‘Good Kids’), who has come up with a new idea called ‘Play by Play.’

Plot specifics about ‘Play by Play’ are largely under wraps (more on that below), but McCoy has a past in sports scripting and the potential movie will also be produced by a company called Religion of Sports’, co-owned by Tom Brady (yes, the one who has a little bit of sports experience himself) and Gotham Chopra.

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What’s the story of ‘Play by Play’?

Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Presumed Innocent,’ premiering June 12, 2024 on Apple TV+.

As we mentioned, Deadline’s report on Gyllenhaal boarding the movie offers no details on the story, but a quick online check suggests it’ll feature the story of a popular pro sports newscaster gets involved in a seedy underworld on his road trips and becomes a marked man by a notorious gang. But we’ll have to wait and see if that is the actual plot.

Where else can we see Jake Gyllenhaal?

(L to R) Christian Bale as Frank and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ronnie Reed in Warner Bros. Pictures ‘The Bride!’, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2026 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.

This is just the latest Amazon MGM movie Gyllenhaal is involved in, following the ‘Road House’ remake and its upcoming sequel.

He’s also in business with the company on ‘Honeymoon with Harry’, a forthcoming dramedy where he’ll star opposite Kevin Costner, as well as ‘Code Black’, a political thriller based on a short story by Harrison Query that’s currently in development.

Other upcoming projects include M. Night Shyamalan’s supernatural romantic thriller ‘Remain,’ due next year, and the Netflix action thriller ‘Kill Switch.’

And the actor is in theaters now, playing a supporting role in sister Maggie Gyllenhaal’s latest directorial outing, ‘The Bride!’

(L to R) Jake Gyllenhaal and director Maggie Gyllenhaal on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures ‘The Bride!’, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise. Copyright: © 2026 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.