Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Oscar nominee Naomie Harris (“Moonlight,” “Skyfall”) will star in director Deon Taylor‘s cop thriller “Black and Blue” for Screen Gems.
Written by Peter A. Dowling, the story centers on a rookie cop (Harris) in New Orleans who witnesses corrupt officers murdering a drug dealer, an event that is captured by her body cam. When they then fail to execute her she escapes and is hunted throughout the night by the narcs who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.
Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment is producing with Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group production shingle. Hidden Empire partner Roxanne Avent will serve as exec producer while Eric Paquette is overseeing the project for Screen Gems.
Harris recently starred in Rampage pic opposite Dwayne Johnson and can be heard in Netflix’s Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, directed by Andy Serkis.
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