Jerod Haynes and Lamar Johnson Added To Cast Of A24’s ‘Native Son’Posted by Wilson Morales
April 18, 2018
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Jerod Haynes and Lamar Johnson have joined the cast of A24’s adaptation of Richard Wright‘s acclaimed novel, ‘Native Son,’ with Moonlight’s Ashton Sanders taking on the iconic role of Bigger Thomas.
The duo joins Margaret Qualley, Kiki Layne, Nick Robinson, Bill Camp and Sanaa Lathan.
It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago’s South Side in the 1930s.
Johnson and Haynes will play the longtime friends of Sanders’ lead character Bigger Thomas, who goes to work as a chauffeur for a local real estate magnate, triggering a chain of events that will have devastating consequences.
Rashid Johnson will direct the film from a screenplay written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
Matthew Libatique (Black Swan, Straight Outta Compton) will be the director of photography.
Johnson most recently starred in Oscar-nominated director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Kings opposite Halle Berry. In addition, he is set to star in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, as well as The Hate U Give based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name.
Haynes was most recently cast in NBC’s pilot The Village and can currently be seen in Benji for Netflix and Blumhouse. He previously appeared in Southside with You and Blueprint, the latter of which he co-produced and co-wrote.
