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Don Cheadle will play a jazz musician killer in ‘John Wick’ creator’s new action movie
Don Cheadle is set to star as a jazz musician killer in Canyon, a new action-thriller from John Wick writer Derek Kolstad and director Colin Tilley.According to Deadline, Canyon takes place “over the course of one scorching night” and follows Canyon – a part-time jazz musician and full-time killer – who “finds himself the unlikely protector of a young siren pulled into a turf war between feuding crime families”.Kolstad will produce with Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson and Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and Jeremy Stein. Cheadle will also produce through his company The Radicle Act with Karyn Smith-Forge.Canyon will mark Tilley’s feature film debut after a long career directing music videos for artists such as Halsey, Kendrick Lamar, Rita Ora, Justin Timberlake and more.Cheadle is best known to mainstream audiences for playing Rhodey/War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Captain Marvel, the Avengers movies, as well as the the Disney+ series Secret Invasion.