Brokeback Mountain heads to the stage with Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist as leads

We're still waiting on Pedro Almodóvar's answer to Brokeback Mountain with Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, but, in the meantime, a stage adaptation is heading to the London theater scene.

Lucas Hedges, who scored an Oscar nomination for 2016's Manchester By the Sea, and Mike Faist, West Side Story's BAFTA-nominated Riff, are set to star as the story's star-crossed sheep herders, Ennis and Jack, respectively. The late Heath Ledger portrayed Ennis and Jake Gyllenhaal played Jack in the Oscar-winning 2005 adaptation from director Ang Lee.

This rendition of Brokeback Mountain, directed by Jonathan Butterell, is described as a play with music. Ashley Robinson wrote the piece, which is based on the original 1997 short story by Annie Proulx published in The New Yorker.

Kimberly French/Focus Features; SoHo Place Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist are set to star in a stage adaptation of 'Brokeback Mountain' in London's West End.

Dan Gillespie Sells wrote the songs, which will be performed by Eddi Reader and her onstage country and western band, consisting of Sean Green (piano/MD), Meelie Traill (upright bass), Julian Jackson (chromatic harmonica), and BJ Cole (pedal steel guitar).

"Brokeback Mountain has been recreated in several different forms, each with its own distinctive moods and impact," Proulx said in a statement. "Ashley's script is fresh and deeply moving, opening sight lines not visible in the original nor successive treatments."

The play begins in 1963 Wyoming, where Ennis and Jack take jobs looking after sheep on the isolated Brokeback Mountain. An undeniable attraction arises between the pair, irrevocably changing their lives within an extremely rural and conservative community.