Barry Jenkins to Direct a Spy Thriller Staring Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman continues his quest to be in every single movie.

Barry Jenkins is one of the busiest men in Hollywood. The Oscar winning director is currently working on an adaptations of James Baldwin’snovel If Beale Street Could Talk, as well as Colson Whitehead's book The Underground Railroad.

Now it's just been announced that Jenkins will be shooting a thriller called Expatriate.

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The movie will star Chadwick Boseman, who co-wrote the script with Logan Coles. According to Deadline, the thriller will be set around a plane getting hijacked in the 1970s.  

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Boseman is currently shooting two Avengers sequels, where he's playing King T'Challa, better known as Black Panther.  

Boseman is also the leading man in Marvel's Black Panther, which comes out next month.

Source: Deadline