Shameik Moore and Paris Jackson have grabbed lead roles within the drama One Spoon of Chocolate, which has began manufacturing in Atlanta.
Rapper and filmmaker Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, additionally identified RZA, is directing from his personal screenplay. The function follows an ex-military convict leaving town for a small city the place he finally ends up discovering love, hazard and extra hassle than he can deal with, in response to a synopsis from the producers.
RZA made his directorial debut with 2012’s The Man With the Iron Fists, by which he starred because the title character and penned the script alongside producer Eli Roth. His directorial follow-up, the Lionsgate rap and poetry drama Love Beats Rhymes, starred Azealia Banks, Frequent, Jill Scott and Lorraine Toussaint.
RZA’s appearing credit embrace Paul Walker’s ultimate movie Brick Mansions, Fox’s Gang Associated (as a collection common) and Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, for which he shared a SAG nomination with the remainder of the forged.
One Spoon of Chocolate
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The ensemble forged for One Spoon of Chocolate contains RJ Cyler, Harry Goodwins, Johnell Younger, Michael Harney, Rockmond Dunbar, E’myri Crutchfield and Blair Underwood. RZA Productions and Xen Diagram Media are producing One Spoon of Chocolate, which was lengthy within the making for RZA.
“I’ve learn many instances how some movies take seven years to make from conception to launch. This challenge has been percolating since 2011 and eventually 13 years later we’re in a position to convey it to manufacturing. I’ve by no means been so excited to start out a journey as I’m about this. And with the good group and forged I’ve beside me we’re destined for a traditional,” RZA mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.
He’s producing the function with producer Paul Corridor (White Males Can’t Leap, Shaft), and government producers Joe Genier, Talani Diggs and Mitchell Divine Diggs. RZA is represented by CAA and King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano LLP.