Oscar Isaac Joins Two Faces Of January, Opposite Viggo Mortensen

Hossein Amini, the screenwriter of Drive, must have been impressed with Oscar Isaac’s perfomance in the Ryan Gosling film, as he’s now cast him in his directorial debut, The Two Faces Of January, opposite Viggo Mortensen, according to Variety.

The film is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novel, about an unlikely trio made up of a con artist, his wife and an American student, whose fates are bound together following the murder of a police officer. While Variety doesn’t say who will play which part, although presumably Mortensen will be the the con man, named Chester MacFarland, with Isaac playing the American student, Rydal Keener.

Isaac will be seen later this summer in The Bourne Legacy and also has the title role in the Coen Brothers’ upcoming movie, Inside Llewyn Davis.