Jonathan Majors has signed on to star in an adaptation of Walter Mosley‘s novel The Man In My Basement. Nadia Latif will make her directorial debut on the film, which Majors will also executive produce under his Tall Street Productions banner. Protagonist Pictures will fully finance the movie.
The novel follows Charles Blakey, an African American man living in Sag Harbor who is stuck in a rut, out of luck, and about to lose his ancestral home, when a peculiar white businessman with a European accent offers to rent his basement for the summer.
He offers to pay $50,000, and this lucrative proposition leads Charles down a terrifying path that takes him to the heart of race, history and the root of all evil. Mosley has adapted the novel himself alongside Latif.
Majors has had key roles in a bunch of big shows and movies ever since his breakout role in 2019’s The Last Black Man In San Francisco. Since then he’s starred in Spike Lee‘s Da 5 Bloods, Netflix western The Harder They Fall, and HBO’s Lovecraft Country.
He’s currently filming Creed III, will play Kang the Conqueror in the upcoming Ant-Man sequel, and will star in war drama Devotion. This summer he also begins filming Magazine Dreams, playing an amateur bodybuilder who struggles to find human connection in an exploration of celebrity and violence.
Production on The Man In My Basement will reportedly begin in the autumn.
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