Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy to star in *Insomniac City*
Jonathan Bailey will play neurologist Oliver Sacks and Bill Nighy will portray writer Bill Hayes in *Insomniac City*, a film adapted from Hayes’s memoir. No release date has been announced.
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Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy will star in *Insomniac City*, a film based on Bill Hayes’s 2017 memoir, Nieuws.nl reports, citing Deadline. Nighy will play Hayes, a writer and photographer, while Bailey will portray neurologist Oliver Sacks.
The story follows Hayes as he tries to rebuild his life in New York and falls in love with Sacks. Hayes adapted the memoir for the screen with director Dominic Cooke. No release date has been announced.
Cooke described the film as an intimate story about second chances and two people finding each other unexpectedly, as well as a tribute to New York.
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