John Boyega and Jamie Foxx are to star in the new and upcoming Netflix sci-fi movie ‘They Cloned Tyrone’.
The movie is directed by Juel Taylor in his feature film directorial debut, from a screenplay by Taylor and Tony Rettenmaier.
In the movie, Boyega plays Tyrone Fontaine, the neighborhood drug dealer and Foxx plays Slick Charles, an acquaintance of Fontaine’s and a procurer of sex workers. They’re joined by Teyonah Parris who will portray Yo-Yo, Charles’ top sex worker.
Production for the movie started in Atlanta last year and part of it is expected to be here in Cape Town, South Africa.
What’s the plot of They Cloned Tyrone?
A pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper in which an unlikely trio investigates a series of eerie events, alerting them to a nefarious conspiracy lurking directly beneath their hood. Fontaine, a neighborhood drug dealer, is shot dead by rival Isaac and then is very shocked to wake up in his bed the next morning unharmed. He and Slick Charles and Yo-Yo begin looking into the incident, and their search eventually leads them to a vast underground complex where a government – backed lab is performing experiments on the local Black population. Realizing that he is an artificial clone controlled by Nixon, Fontaine initially feels despair, but decides he needs to stand up to these white institutional overlords for the sake of his neighborhood.
The release date for the movie is not yet confirmed but can either be late this year or early 2022.
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