Morris Chestnut Signs 3-Pic Deal With Screen Gems; Set For Thriller With Regina HallPosted by Wilson Morales
November 19, 2014
Source: Deadline
Morris Chestnut has signed a three-picture deal with Sony’s Screen Gems as an actor and producer, reports Deadline.
The first of the pics is upcoming thriller The Perfect Guy, which he’s recently finished shooting that will star himself, Sanaa Lathan, and Michael Ealy.
The next film will ‘When The Bough Breaks,’ a psychological thriller that will star Chestnut and Regina Hall. The two appeared together in The Best Man, The Best Man Holiday, and Think Like a Man.
According to the site, ‘Bough,’ directed by Jon Cassar, tracks a professional couple who hire a blue-collar surrogate who develops a violent obsession with the husband. The pic is being produced by New Line founders and Lord of the Rings EPs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, and Chestnut will exec produce.
Chestnut’s third Screen Gems film will be The Syndicate, from writer Cliff Dorfman (Entourage, Warrior). Chestnut is producing that project, which is exec produced by Jeff Waters and James Farrell.
Chestnut has a long history with Screen Gems, with films that include Think Like A Man, Two Can Play That Game and its sequel, and 2013’s The Call, which he starred opposite Halle Berry. He also appeared in Malcolm D. Lee’s box office hit in Universal’s 2013 sequel The Best Man Holiday.
He recently starred opposite Sean Bean on TNT’s Legends, and this fall filmed Bus 657 opposite Robert De Niro and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
