“Book of Clarence” star LaKeith Stanfield has actually signed up with Mark Wahlberg in supervisor Shane Black’s most recent movie, “Play Dirty,” introduced Tuesday.
The movie is an adjustment of Donald E. Westlake’s “Parker” books concentrated on a specialist burglar, to be played by Wahlberg, that is double-crossed and left for dead. In his mission for vengeance he comes across a significant break-in. Stanfield will certainly play Grofield, called Parker’s companion that is additionally a scam artist and star.
Charles Mondry, Anthony Bagarozzi and Black himself are the film writers on the task with Jules Daly and Marc Toberoff as manufacturers. Joel Silver was at first noted as a manufacturer till he was terminated in November over claims of spoken misuse.
“Play Dirty” has actually undergone some spreading adjustments given that its creation. Robert Downey, Jr. was at first prepared to star. The task would certainly have reteamed him with supervisor Black that collaborated with the star formerly on “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” and “Iron Man 3.”
Downey Jr. and Susan Downey of Group Downey along with Black, Mongry, Bagarozzi and James Skotchdopole are executive generating with Ezra Emanuel as a co-producer.
Stanfield can presently be seen in “The Book of Clarence” playing a guy in Scriptural times that styles himself a Messiah. It reteams him with supervisor Jeymes Samuel and co-star RJ Cyler; the triad formerly dealt with the revisionist Western “The Harder They Fall” in 2021. He was additionally in Disney’s most lately tackle “The Haunted Mansion,” guided by Justin Simien and launched in 2023.
Westlake’s 28 “Parker” books have actually been a prominent resource of adjustment product given that their magazine in 1962. Because time Lee Marvin has actually played the title personality in 1967’s “Point Blank,” as has Jim Brown (1968’s “The Split”), Robert Duvall (1973’s “The Outfit”), Peter Prairie wolf (1983’s “Slayground”), Mel Gibson (1999’s “Payback”) and, most lately, Jason Statham (2013’s “Parker”).