Billy Slaughter Joins Amazon’s ‘The Burial’; ‘Oppenheimer’ Adds Trond Fausa
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Billy Slaughter (The Card Counter) has boarded Amazon Studios’ film The Burial, which is currently in production in New Orleans.He joins an ensemble that also includes Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, Bill Camp, Dorian Missick, Pamela Reed, Amanda Warren, Jim Klock and Alan Ruck, as previously announced.Director Maggie Betts’ film is based on the New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr.
It follows a charismatic personal injury lawyer famous for his impressive track record and loudly unconventional approach who decides to help a funeral home owner save his family business from a predatory corporate behemoth.
In a move to bring emotional resonance to a dry contract law case, the lawyer digs up an unexpected and complex web of race, power and oppression that forces everyone to examine long-buried prejudices they didn’t know they had.Details with regard to the character Slaughter is playing have not been disclosed.
Doug Wright adapted the screenplay. Bobby Shriver is producing for Bobby Shriver Inc., along with Double Nickel Entertainment’s Adam Richman and Jenette Kahn, Foxx and his producing partner Datari Turner, and Maven Pictures’ Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray.Slaughter will next be seen in the Cinedigm thriller The Ravine, alongside Teri Polo, and 3000 Pictures’ Where the Crawdads Sing, alongside David Strathairn and more.
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