Actor, Aml Ameen, is set to star and make his directorial debut with Holiday rom-com Boxing Day. The I May Destroy You and The Maze Runner actor co-wrote the screenplay with Bruce Purnell, which is derived from the actor’s own life. Starring alongside Ameen are How to Get Away with Murder’s Aja Naomi King, British pop group Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock making her screen debut, and the award winning Secret & Lies actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste. This makes for the UK’s first holiday film with an all black cast. The project will be produced by Matthew G. Zamias, Damian Jones of DJ Films, Dominique Telson, and Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor in conjunction with Ameen and Purnell via their company Studio113. Executive producing the film are Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden and Lauren Dark from Film4 with Farhana Bhula from the British Film Institute (BFI) and Thorsten Schumacher from Rocket Science, Film4, and Warner Bros. are producing.
In Boxing Day, Melvin (Ameen), is a British author living in America who returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa (King) to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. The trip puts the couple’s relationship to the test, and Lisa discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
In a statement to Deadline, Ameen commented, “It is such an honour to be teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures, Film4 and BFI to bring Black British Culture to the world in this universal holiday rom-com, remarked Ameen. “It’s long been a dream of mine to capture films that reflect the wonderfully multi-cultural city that raised me while sharing stories from the diary of my life.”
Aml Ameen is a British film, theater, and television actor known for his roles in The Maze Runner and the Netflix series Sense8. The actor can currently be seen as Simon in HBO’s I May Destroy You and in the upcoming Amazon Prime Horror/Thriller Run Sweetheart Run.
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