Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: After a lengthy pursuit by all the agencies, writer/director/musician Jeymes Samuel has signed with Verve.
Samuel is about to make his feature directorial debut on The Harder They Fall, the $90M budget Netflix Western that stars Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors, with Jay-Z, James Lassiter and Lawrence Bender producing and Jay-Z overseeing the music.Samuel is a British multi-hyphenate who got his start in London in the music arena under the stage name The Bullitts.
He wrote the script for The Harder They Fall, which has a green light and will shoot in New Mexico, where it was prepping when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down everything back in March.
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