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EXCLUSIVE: Ice Cube and Tommy Lee Jones are connected committee to prima successful nan Teton Ridge pic Outside Man from Oscar-winner Brian Helgeland. Helgeland will constitute and nonstop nan film. Jillian Share and Jen Gorton will nutrient via their Teton Ridge Entertainment banner pinch Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz producing done their Cube Vision banner. Bill Gerber will besides produce.
The movie follows a erstwhile Chicago mob enforcer (Cube), who aft being released from prison, is simply a man intent connected changing his life. Disappearing into agrarian Texas, he finds activity nether a skilled furnishings craftsman and retired Texas Ranger Gus Wanamaker (Jones). As Ruben and Gus shape an improbable friendship, that enslaved is jeopardized erstwhile some men’s pasts frighten to drawback up pinch them.
Cube Vision’s Ben Hurwitz will exec produce. Sources show Deadline nan package precocious deed nan marketplace this week and is already drafting attraction from buyers.
This marks nan 2nd movie Jones and Hlegeland person worked connected together pinch Jones antecedently starring successful Helgeland’s Finest Kind.
Helgeland is represented by Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein and WME.
Cube is represented by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Jones is repped by CAA.
