EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a undertaking transferring ahead at Paramount: the western Man of War starring Samuel L. Jackson, and Tim Story directing and producing.
In Man of War, Jackson performs a newly retired and long-revered common who returns to his hometown in rural Georgia after the loss of life of his spouse to search out it within the throes of corruption, gentrification, and racism. Using battle-honed technique and fight abilities, he’ll wage all-out warfare towards the city and the billionaire exploiting it. Sheldon Turner penned the screenplay.
Jennifer Klein and Turner are producing by their firm, Vendetta Productions, alongside Story and The Story Company’s Vicky Story will govt produce.
Story has directed ten main studio function movies—eight of them have debuted at No. 1 on the field workplace throughout their opening weekends—Tom & Jerry, Ride Along 2, Think Like A Man Too, Ride Along, Think Like A Man, Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four and Barbershop. Story’s function canon counts north of $1 billion on the international field workplace making him the primary Black director ever to cross this milestone. He was additionally the primary Black director to direct a Marvel movie and the primary to direct two Marvel motion pictures. His subsequent function movie is The Pick Up starring Eddie Murphy that will likely be launched this yr by Amazon Studios. He is at the moment in pre-production on Netflix’s 72 Hours starring Kevin Hart. On the tv aspect, Story was most lately a director and govt producer of ABC’s Queens and Showtime’s White Famous.
Jackson was nominated for a 1995 Supporting Actor Oscar for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. His resume spans over 150 motion pictures. The actor has additionally acquired Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Tony Award nominations, in addition to a BAFTA Award, two Independent Spirit Awards and 4 NAACP Image Awards, amongst myriad honors. In 2022, in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to cinema, Jackson acquired an Honorary Oscar. His function credit are quite a few together with Jurassic Park, The Hateful Eight, Captain Marvel, the Iron Man franchise, Avengers: Infinity War and End Game, Star Wars – Episodes I-III, amongst many others. Upcoming is Renny Harlin’s The Beast and J.J. Perry’s Afterburn.
Story is represented by UTA, The Collins Jackson Agency and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Jackson is represented by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein