In the Jonestown thriller 'White Night,' Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play cult leader Jim Jones.

 

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (/lvt/; born February 17, 1981) is an actor and filmmaker from the United States. He has garnered numerous awards, including Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his major roles in 500 Days of Summer (2009) and 50/50 (2009). (2011). 

He is the founder of the online media platform HitRecord, where he received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Interactive Program for HitRecord on TV (2014–15) and Create Together (2020).

In filmmaker Anne Sewitsky's adaption of Deborah Layton's storey, 'Seductive Poison,' Chloe Grace Moretz co-stars as cult survivor Deborah Layton.

White Night, a psychological thriller on Jones' infamous People's Temple cult, has cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloe Grace Moretz as cult leader Jim Jones and Jonestown victim Deborah Layton.

jones, a charismatic preacher based in San Francisco, amassed a large and devoted following. In Guyana, he founded "Jonestown" in 1974. On Nov. 18, 1978, Jones issued a command to his followers to swallow poison. One of the largest mass murder-suicides in history claimed the lives of over 900 people.

The adaptation of Layton's best-selling memoir, Seductive Poison, will be directed by Anne Sewitsky (A Very British Scandal) from a scenario by William Wheeler (The Ghost in the Shell).

Gordon-Levitt isn't the only one who has been cast to play the infamous figure. In November, EW announced that Leonardo DiCaprio, who co-starred with him in Inception, is scheduled to play Jones in a biography written by Venom writer Scott Rosenberg.

Despite the fact that neither Gordon-Levitt nor Grace Moretz are newcomers to the psychological thriller genre, they have both lately dabbled in animation. The former will voice Jiminy Cricket in Disney's live-action Pinocchio in 2022, while the latter has roles in Tom & Jerry and The Addams Family 2 in 2021.