EXCLUSIVE: Sinners standout Wunmi Mosaku is a brand new addition to The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, the forthcoming jail break thriller written and directed Tim Blake Nelson.
Character particulars are underneath wraps, however she rounds out a forged led by Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy, by which Nelson additionally options. The indie watches as a trainer in an abusive marriage takes a job at a maximum-security jail, falling for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous penalties name into query not solely the character of punishment and retribution, however the very limits of our humanity.
At present in manufacturing in Georgia, the movie additionally stars Missi Pyle, William Jackson Harper, Elizabeth Marvel, Grant Harvey, and Devyn Tyler. Producers embody Julie Buck, Nelson, Ryan Bartecki, Miles David Romney, and Billy Hines, with Christopher Hines, Gary Levinsohn, Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty and Elan Gale exec producing. John Mock and Vanessa Stewart are co-producers. Co Created Media, V42 Fund, Nelson’s Purple Barn Movies, QWGmire, and Story Mill Leisure are the manufacturing corporations, and home rights are being co-represented by WME, V42, and D Squared Movies.
Mosaku is coming off of her flip as Annie, the Hoodoo priestess accomplice of Michael B. Jordan’s Smoke, in Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s smash hit interval vampire flick, which has grossed over $350 million worldwide. Beforehand, she’s additionally been seen in movies like Deadpool & Wolverine, Unbelievable Beasts and The place to Discover Them, and Philomena, in addition to lauded sequence like Loki, Black Mirror, We Personal This Metropolis and Lovecraft Nation.
The rising expertise is repped by Gersh, Principal Leisure LA, Scott Marshall Companions, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.