Brie Larson has worked with director Destin Daniel Cretton a couple of times now, on Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle. She's set to make it three for three, joining Michael B. Jordan in Just Mercy.
Cretton adapted Bryan Stevenson’s memoir Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption alongside Andrew Lanham and has shepherded the potential film through a few schedule changes and a move from Broad Green Pictures to Warner Bros.
The story follows Stevenson’s (Jordan) work as a young lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a company dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly convicted, women and children. One of his earliest cases was Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), sentenced to die for a murder he insists he didn’t commit and at the centre of swirling mire of conspiracy and political double-dealing. Variety's report offers no details as to what Larson will be playing in the film, but she'll be working on it when it kicks off production next month in Atlanta.
Larson will have a big 2019, making her debut as Marvel's latest hero with Captain Marvel (8 March) and then showing up to help the MCU again in the untitled follow-up to Avengers: Infinity War, which is out on 26 April.
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