EXCLUSIVE: A Day to Die and Call Her King filmcreater 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 creaters. 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 trails a jury deliberating the case of Theodore Sterling (Morrow), a privileged youthful man accused of relationsual aggression of a 20-someleang African-American woman (Lynn Washington). The prosecution is led by Assistant State Attorney James Jones (Spears), an overtoiled yet determined prosecutor, who faces off agetst 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 argues, incrrelieveing the tension inside the deliberation room. Meanwhile, the ecombinence of a Wildcard, an enigmatic witness claiming to understand the truth about the night in ask, throws the case into turmoil. Her joinion to the accused and her motives insert a layer of undeclareivety, raising critical asks about bias, privilege, and the pursuit of equitableice.
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 inrationally talented cast to transport this piece to life,” Miller shelp of his next feature. “For me, it checks the discourse in our country and says more about what we can do together, than apart, wrapped in a rapid-paced commerciassociate viable thriller.”
