Busy Brit Nicholas Hoult will take on the role of one of the greatest American authors of all-time in a new biopic.
Hoult scored a huge hit earlier this year with Mad Max: Fury Road and is has just finished filming on X-Men: Apocalypse, his third outing as Beast in the superhero series.
And now the 25-year-old, who first made his name opposite Hugh Grant in About A Boy, will star in Rebel In The Rye which will focus on how Salinger came to write one of the most iconic novels of the 20th century.