Sarah Paulson will play a literary agent named Dorothy Olding in the J.D. Salinger biopic, Rebel in the Rye. In the past, Paulson (pictured, via) has taken on roles in several book-based movies including Carol, 12 Years a Slave, and Game Change.
According to Deadline, this movie will also feature Nicholas Hoult as the renowned author and Kevin Spacey as Professor Whit Burnett. Danny Strong will serve as both the director and screenwriter.
Here’s more from Variety: “The movie will cover Salinger’s rebellious youth, the bloody front lines of World War II, enduring great love and terrible loss, a life of rejection to the pages of The New Yorker, and the PTSD-fueled writer’s block that led to the birth of his iconic book The Catcher in the Rye. Paulson will play Dorothy Olding, the agent who believed in the young Jerry Salinger from his earliest short stories and was fiercely loyal to him throughout his entire career.” (via Vulture)