EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Majors has been set to steer Gerard McMurray’s motion film True Risk.
This come within the wake of Majors being forged within the upcoming revenge thriller Cruel, directed by Martin Villeneuve.
True Risk follows Particular Forces operative ‘Vernon Risk’ (Majors) as he embarks on a relentless quest for justice after his teenage son is murdered by a Harlem gang referred to as The Apollo Youngsters. Decided to take revenge, Risk infiltrates The Carter, a towering 20-story venture constructing that serves because the gang’s stronghold, battling his approach to the highest flooring to confront their chief and his former mentor, ‘Shallow.’ Combining gripping motion with deep themes of fatherhood, brotherhood, and neighborhood accountability, True Risk guarantees to ship a culturally pressing and relentlessly kinetic expertise.
True Risk is the following manufacturing from CAT5, the action-focused movie label launched by Alexis Garcia final yr with the backing of Fifth Season. McMurray directs from a script he co-wrote with Hodge Okay. Johnson, with SAG Award nominee Larnell Stovall overseeing the movie’s motion design. True Risk will prominently function 52 Blocks, a Black American martial arts model, making it the primary main movie to showcase the self-discipline.
A Primetime Emmy, Critics’ Selection, SAG Awards nominee, Jonathan Majors, can presently be seen starring in Elijah Bynum’s Journal Desires, which premiered on the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant and gained the Particular Jury Award earlier than its March 21 launch of this yr through Briarcliff Leisure.
Majors’ breakout efficiency in A24’s The Final Black Man in San Francisco earned essential acclaim. He went on to star in HBO’s 2x Emmy profitable Lovecraft Nation, Netflix’s The More durable They Fall, and Devotion reverse Glen Powell. Majors’ flip in Creed III reverse Michael B. Jordan helped ship a record-breaking home opening for the franchise ($58.3M) and the largest home launch ever for a
sports activities movie ($156.2M). Extra credit embrace ABC’s award-winning mini-series When We Rise, and Columbia Photos’ White Boy Rick the place he starred reverse Matthew McConaughey. Majors additionally performed the mega villain He Who Stays in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Loki and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaia. Majors is represented by WME.
Final November, Majors’ ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari dropped the federal lawsuit during which she accused him of assault and defamation from an incident in March 2023.
Launched in Could 2024, CAT5 is a turnkey financing and manufacturing firm dedicated to creating high-quality motion movies with broad business attraction. Previous to founding CAT5, Alexis Garcia performed a pivotal function at Fifth Season (previously Endeavor Content material), overseeing the manufacturing of over 40 movies and establishing the corporate as a world content material chief.
