Daniel Kaluuya is set to return to live-action films after a four-year gap. The Oscar winner is going to reunite with an acclaimed director.
What live-action movie has Daniel Kaluuya been cast in?
Daniel Kaluuya has joined Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming live-action movie The Parlay. What makes this project special for Kaluuya is that he will get to collaborate with Shaka King, the same director he worked with in 2021’s Judas and the Black Messiah, reports Deadline.
Apart from being a critical success, this movie also helped Kaluuya get his first-ever Oscar award in the Best Supporting Actor category. In the crime thriller, Kaluuya played a revolutionary activist, Fred Hampton. King had also bagged a nomination for the movie, as a producer, in the Best Picture category.
Kaluuya’s last major appearance in a live-action movie came in 2022’s Nope by Jordan Peele. Over the past four years, he has taken on a few supporting roles, such as voicing the character of Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk, in 2023’s blockbuster Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and co-directing a film, The Kitchen.
As for The Parlay, Kaluuya’s upcoming collaboration with Shaka King, its plot details are currently under wraps. But it’s expected to be a crime thriller.
Besides The Parlay, Kaluuya is also going to appear in a few other projects. He will next be seen in A24’s Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel, a thriller helmed by Michael Shanks. It will follow a man who wakes up in a mysterious hotel room and tries to pull off an escape.
Kaluuya will also appear in a movie titled Misty Green, directed by Chris Rock. He is also currently co-writing the Spider-Punk movie for Sony Pictures Animation. The actor is also producing a live-action Barney movie under his production banner.
As for The Parlay, it has yet to receive an official release date window.
