Jason Isbell Boards RZA Action Film ‘One Spoon of Chocolate’
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Isbell joins actors Shameik Moore (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Dope) and Paris Jackson on One Spoon of Chocolate from original screenplay directed amnd written by RZA who is producing the feature with producer Paul Hall (White Men Can’t Jump and Shaft), executive producers Talani Diggs, Mitchell Divine Diggs, and Joe Genier (Bigger).
In addition Jason Isbell, Isaiah Hill (Swagger) and James Lee Thomas (Bad Boys: Ride or Die) join Shameik Moore and Paris Jackson with actors RJ Cyler (The Harder They Fall), Harry Goodwins (The Gentlemen), Johnell Young (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), Michael Harney (Iron Claw), Rockmond Dunbar (911 and Prison Break), E’myri Crutchfield (Dark Harvest and Fargo), and Blair Underwood (Origin) have joined the cast.
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The film follows an ex-military convict who leaves the city for a small town where he ends up finding love, danger and more trouble than he can handle.
Jason Isbell is an American singer-songwriter and actor whose credits include Killers of the Flower Moon and Billions. He is known for his solo career, his work with the band The 400 Unit, and as a member of Drive-By Truckers for six years, from 2001 to 2007. Isbell has won six Grammy Awards. Isbell can also be seen on May 19 at the FreshGrass Festival in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Isbell is repped by Alexandra Sera and Andrew Colvin at WME, and RZA is repped by John Garvey at CAA and Joe M. Carlone, Esq at King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, LLP.
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