Paramount Players has signed “Black Panther” star Winston Duke to board its action-thriller “Heroine.”Dan Casey will direct “Heroine” from his own script about a mother who witnesses a kidnapping by a white nationalist gang.
Duke will portray her vigilante neighbor.“Heroine” is being produced by Matt Kaplan through his Ace Entertainment production company, which has a first-look deal with Paramount Players.
A spring shoot for “Heroine” is being planned.Duke portrayed the villainous M’Baku in Marvel’s “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” Duke is also attached to star in Jordan Peele’s horror film “Us” along with Lupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker.Duke is a native of Trinidad and Tobago.
Prior to scoring the M’Baku role, he appeared on “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Person of Interest,” “Major Crimes,” and “Modern Family.” Casey wrote the script for Lionsgate’s recent sci-fi thriller “Kin,
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