‘Thriller’ Filmmaker Dallas Jackson Inks With APA
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Dallas Jackson, whose Blumhouse feature film Thriller made its world premiere at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, has signed with APA.
Jackson’s current slate of film projects include The System with Ludacris attached to star, RZA directing/producing alongside Divide/Conquer and XYZ handling global sales. The movie is scheduled to start production next summer.
Jackson is also set to direct Welcome to Sudden Death at Universal this spring.
The Last Dragon, which Jackson wrote, is in development at Columbia with Samuel L. Jackson attached to star.
In television, the filmmaker is executive producing Rebel for BET with iconic film director John Singleton and writing Straight Out of Heaven with Singleton for WBTV, and co-writing Ghost Dog with RZA for Alcon Entertainment, with Forrest Whitaker and Jim Jarmusch attached to executive produce. Jackson is also repped by Thruline, and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer.
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