Maggie Gyllenhaal lands vibrator comedy

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy have signed up to star in a romantic comedy about the invention of the first vibrator, says Variety.

The period drama, titled Hysteria, centres on two doctors in Victorian London who experiment with an electrical device to treat irritable and angry women. Dancy and Jonathan Pryce will play the physicians.

Gyllenhaal has been cast as the daughter of Pryce's character and Rupert Everett is also attached to star as Dancy's best friend.

Tanya Wexler is directing Hysteria from a script by Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer.