Wunmi Mosaku, greatest identified for her work in Marvel Studios’ Loki and HBO’s Lovecraft Nation, has joined Michael B. Jordan within the untitled supernatural horror thriller that Ryan Coogler is directing for Warner Bros.
The buzzy undertaking, the article of a high-profile bidding conflict in January, heads earlier than cameras later this month in New Orleans and is furiously casting up. Delroy Lindo and Jack O’Connell closed offers final week.
Little is thought concerning the undertaking — and what’s identified has but to be confirmed by both the studio or Coogler. Insiders say the characteristic is ready within the Jim Crow-era South and probably entails each vampires and Southern supernatural traditions. Jordan could also be enjoying twin roles — as twin brothers.
Sources say that Mosaku could also be one of many characteristic’s feminine lead and enjoying the spouse of certainly one of Jordan’s characters.
Coogler wrote the script and can also be producing through his manufacturing firm Proximity Media. Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian are additionally producing.
The undertaking, which The Hollywood Reporter first revealed in January, was a topic of a heated bidding conflict within the winter, with Warners popping out on high because of distinctive deal that can see among the film’s rights reverting to the filmmaker over the course of a number of many years.
The studio has set a March 7, 2025 launch date.
Mosaku, who was born in Nigeria and raised within the U.Ok., broke by means of within the U.S. along with her efficiency in HBO’s Lovercraft Nation, the acclaimed collection that checked out Nineteen Fifties racism by means of a horror lens. The actress performed Ruby Baptiste, a job that earned her a nomination for a Critics Selection Award within the class of greatest supporting actress in a drama collection.
The actress has appeared in each seasons of Loki, enjoying the important thing position of Hunter B-15, a soldier within the Time Variance Authority, reverse Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson. The BAFTA-winning actress most lately starred in British thriller collection Passenger.
Mosaku is repped by Gersh, Principal Leisure, Scott Marshall Companions (UK Brokers) and Johnson Shapiro.