For Danny Strong's Rebel In The RyeWe’re more used to see him playing fictional folk in films such as this year’s Mad Max: Fury Road. But Nicholas Hoult is about to tackle a very different challenge – playing author JD Salinger, a real, if largely reclusive, person for writer/director Danny Strong in Rebel In The Rye.Strong has adapted the script from Kenneth Slawenski’s biography of Salinger, JD Salinger: A Life., and the film aims to chronicle the life and mind of the secretive writer, including how he brought iconic tome The Catcher In The Rye from the depths of his brain.