EXCLUSIVE: Okwui Okpokwasili has been set to star in Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Girl within the Yard from Blumhouse for Common.
The actress joins Danielle Deadwyler, who was beforehand introduced.
Like all Blumhouse motion pictures within the works, the pic’s plot is being stored secret.
This can be a reteaming for Okpokwasili with Blumhouse as she beforehand starred of their fall title Exorcist: Believer. She additionally stars in Marvel Studios/Disney+’s upcoming sequence, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, and has starred in Grasp for Prime Video; and in such motion pictures as Distant, Madeline’s Madeline, and Bronx Gothic.
In 2022, she starred in within the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Her work has been commissioned by BAM, The Walker Artwork Heart, Danspace Challenge, Efficiency House New York, the Heart for the Artwork of Efficiency at UCLA, amongst different establishments. She has held residencies at MoMA, Maggie Allesee Nationwide Choreographic Heart, the Decrease Manhattan Cultural Council, the Rauschenberg Basis Captiva Residency, and New York Stay Arts, the place she was a Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist. Okpokwasili is represented by Revolutionary Artists and Brillstein Leisure Companions.
The Girl within the Yard is written by Sam Stefanak. Jason Blum and Stephanie Allain are producers on the movie. Collet-Serra, Deadwyler, Gabrielle Ebron, Scott Greenberg and James Moran are government producers. Haley Pigman and Jungyoon Kim are the executives masking the movie for Blumhouse. The Girl within the Yard is a Blumhouse manufacturing for Common.
Collet-Serra directed Dwayne Johnson’s greatest solo opening on the field workplace, Black Adam for Warner Bros/DC, which debued to $67M and finaled at $168.1M stateside, $393.4M WW.