James Urbaniak joins 'Rebel in the Rye' cast

Actor James Urbaniak is the newest addition to the cast of JD Salinger biopic 'Rebel in the Rye.' To be directed by Danny Strong the film also stars Nicholas Hoult, reported Variety.

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Urbaniak, 52, will play

Gus Lobrano

, who was the real-life fiction editor of the New Yorker during the Salinger's most productive years in the late '40s through the '50s. The movie is based on

Kenneth Slawenski

's biography, '

J.D. Salinger: A Life

,' which Strong adapted.