Very quietly, Jonathan Majors has lost another job.
I’m told that Majors was set to play against Willem Dafoe in a movie based on Walter Mosley’s mystery novel, “The Man in My Basement.”
But with Majors’ conviction last month on domestic abuse charges, he’s out of the film.
Coming in will be — I can tell you exclusively — Corey Hawkins. Hawkins is currently in “The Color Purple” playing Harpo to Danielle Brooks’s Sofia. He was on Broadway last year in “Top Dog/Underdog,” where he wowed crowds and won raves. He was also nominated for a Tony Award.
Up and comer Nadia Latif is directing. Filming abroad in Scotland is imminent.
Dafoe is off the charts great in “Poor Things,” currently in theaters. He just received a SAG nomination for Best Supporting Actor and is heading to the Oscars, I suspect.
Here’s the Amazon description of “The Man in the Basement”:
Charles’s summer with a man in his basement turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. Walter Mosley pierces long-hidden veins of justice and morality with startling insight into the deepest mysteries of human nature.
The man at Charles Blakey’s door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles’s basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The money would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than a basement view.
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