This week sees the release of another film – The Devil's Double– in which an actor manfully plays against himself. Now we hear that Jesse Eisenberg will be competing with Jesse Eisenberg in a version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double. Richard Ayoade, whose Submarinerecently impressed, will be behind the camera for – somewhat surprisingly – the first ever screen version of the slippery novella.

“Dostoevsky never finished it to his satisfaction,” Ayoade says. “We’re going to dust that off. We’ll do what Fyodor couldn’t.” Ayoade (Moss from

The IT Crowd

) insists that he will inject humour into the grim tale.