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Can a film audience empathize with a glorified paparazzo? That might be what we’ll find out in Dan Gilroy’s upcoming film, Nightcrawler. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a man down on his luck desperate to make money. When he stumbles upon a late night crime scene, it dawns upon him to pick up a camera and begin scouring the city for exclusive footage from crime scenes across Los Angeles to sell to a local news network for quick money. However, what happens when Lou himself becomes entangled in the very crimes he set out to document?
Nightcrawler will be in theaters on Halloween. You can read the film’s full synopsis below.
NIGHTCRAWLER is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.