Amazon picks up new action movie starring Lovecraft Country's Jurnee Smollett

Jurnee Smollett in Lovecraft Country
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Amazon Studios is set to buy Fuel, an😼 action-packed movie starring Jurnee Smollett, according to . Amazon is currently in negotiations for the pitch, so the movie hasn't🐎 been made yet,

Fuel will follow a getaway driver, to be played by Smollett, who is coerced into working for a criminal and breaking all the rules she set for herself. T𒉰he movie, written by Kat Wood, will aim to subvert the stereot꧑ypical relationship between cars and masculinity.

Smollett will also produce, along with Mi🔯sha Green. The duo have worked together several times before – Green is a showrunner and executive producer on HBO horror series Lovecraft Country, in which Smollett stars. Set in the '50s, the show follows Atticus, a young Black man, who travels across the segregated US in search of his missing father, battling both racism and things that go bump in the night on the way. Smollett plays Letitia, an old friend of Atticus', who joins him on his journey. She also had a lead role in Underground, the first scripted US TV show to focus on slavery and the Underground Railroad, which Green co-created, executive produced, and wrote.

Smollett's last big-screen role was in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Birds of Prey. She played Dinah Lance (AKA Black Canary), who teams up with Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn to take on a Gotham City crime lord. Meanwhile, Green is set to make her directorial debut with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a new installment of Tomb Raider starring Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft.

While we wait for Fuel to hit the streamer, check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best movies on Amazon Prime to watch right now.

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