Novelist Nicholas Sparks and filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan are teaming up on a project, Deadline reports.

The Notebook author and the Sixth Sense director have joined forces to write an original supernatural love story that will form the basis of a novel by Sparks and a screenplay by Shyamalan. The film will star Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role.

Sparks’ debut novel, The Notebook, was adapted into a hit movie directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Several of his other novels have also been adapted as films, including A Walk To Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, The Longest Ride, and Safe Haven.

Shyamalan is known for his spooky, twisty films, including Signs, The Village, and Trap. In 2023, he adapted Paul Tremblay’s novel The Cabin at the End of the World into a film titled Knock at the Cabin.

Shyamalan will produce the new film with Sparks as an executive producer.

Sparks shared news of the project on the social platform X, writing, “Together, we’re co-creating an original love story and independently writing a novel and a screenplay that will hopefully surprise you, move you, and stay with you long after the credits roll.…This collaboration is a dream come true, and I’m so grateful for the chance to work with such extraordinary artists.”

Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.