Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton) and Bill Nighy (About Time) will star in Dominic Cooke's (On Chesil Beach) love story Insomniac City about writer and photographer Bill Hayes and neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, Deadline reported.
Co-written and adapted by Hayes and Cooke from Hayes's 2017 memoir, the story "follows Hayes as he arrives in New York City from San Francisco in the wake of a devastating loss. As he begins to rebuild his life, he falls unexpectedly in love with both the city and Oliver Sacks, whose writing and groundbreaking work in neurology made him one of the most distinctive voices in modern medicine."
Cooke said: "Insomniac City is a rare story that feels both profoundly intimate and epic in scope. It is a story that celebrates second chances in life; a portrait of two people finding each other at an unexpected moment in their lives. It is also a love letter to New York City itself, a place of endless possibility, reinvention and connection. Bill Hayes's memoir captures the fragile beauty of love in the face of mortality, and I am honored to bring that story to the screen alongside our extraordinary actors, Jonathan Bailey, Bill Nighy and our producing team."