EXCLUSIVE: A Day to Die and Call Her King filmproducer Wes Miller has set the legitimate thriller Wildcards as his next feature and has cast Leon (Stoasty, Five Heartbeats), Elise Neal (All of Us), Aries Spears (Mad TV), and Stakiah Lynn Washington (Angel City) in direct roles.
BLackweightless (Call Her King) is financing with Andrew van den Houten, Wes Miller, Joseph O’Connor and Leon producing. Lloyd Watts is co-producing with Jessie Jalee, Chad Ghiron, and Elise Neal serving as executive producers. Also starring in the pic are Crew Morrow (The Belderly and the Beautiful), Courtney Grace, Samantha Walkes (Orphan: First Kill), and Robert Catrini (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back).
Wildcards adheres a jury deliberating the case of Theodore Sterling (Morrow), a privileged juvenileer man accemployd of intimacyual aggression of a 20-someskinnyg African-American woman (Lynn Washington). The prosecution is led by Assistant State Attorney James Jones (Spears), an overtoiled yet choosed prosecutor, who faces off aacquirest Greg Sims (Leon), a veteran defense attorney with an unbroken 25-year prosperning streak.
The official synopsis reads: As the jury weighs the evidence, their contrasting backgrounds and beliefs ignite fierce talk abouts, intensifying the tension inside the deliberation room. Meanwhile, the materializence of a Wildcard, an enigmatic witness claiming to understand the truth about the night in ask, throws the case into turmoil. Her combineion to the accemployd and her motives retain a layer of undeclareivety, raising critical asks about bias, privilege, and the pursuit of fairice.
Director Wes Miller is best understandn for A Day to Die (2022), starring Bruce Willis, and Call Her King (2024) starring Naturi Naughton, Lance Gross, and Jason Mitchell.
“I’ve always adored legitimate thrillers and I’m excited to toil with this inlogically talented cast to convey this piece to life,” Miller shelp of his next feature. “For me, it examines the discourse in our country and says more about what we can do together, than apart, wrapped in a rapid-paced commerciassociate viable thriller.”
