Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the sci-fi film Song of Oblivion, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici. Gyllenhaal’s production company, Nine Stories, will handle production with Riva Marker and Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment studio.

Recall that Robert Kirkman is best known as the co-writer of The Walking Dead, the comic book that became the basis for the series of the same name, as well as some issues of X-Men and Ant-Man.

Released by Image Comics in 2018, “Song of Oblivion” is about Nathan Cole, a man who makes daily trips to try to rescue those still in Oblivion, a population center in Philadelphia that went missing a decade ago, along with its 300,000 residents.

“We were thrilled to find such wonderful partners at New Republic and Nine Stories. Both companies have terrific reputations for top-notch storytelling at the highest level, and we can’t wait for Jake to bring this character to life on the big screen. We are so lucky to have assembled a team that is as passionate about this comic book as we are,” Kirkman said in a statement on the occasion.