Variety reports that New Line has set Peter Sarsgaard to star with Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon in RENDITION, director Gavin Hood's followup to his Oscar-winning "Tsotsi."

Kelley Sane wrote the script, with filming to begin this fall.

RENDITION centers on a CIA operative in the Middle East who questions his assignment after observing a secret-police grilling of a suspect in a suicide bombing.

Sarsgaard has completed the comedy "Year of the Dog" for Paramount Vantage. He also just wrapped the lead role in "Mysteries of Pittsburgh," which Michael London is producing and financing through his Groundswell Prods. banner.