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Idris Elba is saddling up to join Jonathan Majors in The Harder They Fall, an all-black Western feature for Netflix. Jeymes Samuel is making his feature directorial debut on the project.

Samuel, also known as The Bullitts, is producing the project with Jay-Z, James Lassiter and Lawrence Bender. Samuel and Jay-Z, who previously collaborated on The Great Gatsby soundtrack, will write and produce original music for The Harder They Fall.

Here’s the logline for the film co-written by Samuel and Boaz Yakin: When outlaw Nat Love (Majors) discovers that the man (Elba) who killed his parents two decades ago is being released from prison, he reunites with his gang to track his enemy down and seek his revenge.


Elba also is starring in another Western drama, Concrete Cowboys, which began filming this year. In December, Elba will be seen on the big screen in Cats, the hotly anticipated film adaptation of the Broadway smash musical.

He’s repped by WME and the Artists Partnership.



 
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According to Collider, Oscar, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk, Watchmen, Seven Seconds), Lakeith Stanfield (Knives Out, Sorry to Bother You, Judas and the Black Messiah), Emmy nominee Zazie Beetz (Atlanta, Deadpool 2, Invincible), Delroy Lindo (The Good Fight, Get Shorty), Edi Gathegi (X-Men: First Class), and RJ Cyler (Black Lightning) have all joined Netflix’s upcoming movie The Harder They Fall.



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The group joins Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country), Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), and Laz Alonso (The Boys) in the all-black Western, which is the story of when outlaw Nat Love (Majors) discovers that the man (Elba) who killed his parents two decades ago is being released from prison, he reunites with his gang to track his enemy down and seek his revenge.

Director Jeymes Samuel (They Die by Known) co-wrote the script with Boaz Yakin (Fresh). Jay-Z will produce the project and has previously collaborated with Samuel on the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. Samuel, James Lassiter, and Lawrence Bender will also produce.
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Samuel — who is also known as the singer-songwriter The Bullitts — and Jay-Z will also be writing and producing original music for The Harder They Fall.

 
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