Exclusive: Actor and former Navy Seal Remi Adeleke has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins imprint William Morrow for a series of thrillers.
Adeleke, whose credits include Michael Bay movies 6 Underground and Transformers: The Last Knight, as well as the director’s upcoming movie Ambulance, is currently filming Lionsgate action movie The Plane with Gerard Butler. Upcoming he also has Amazon’s Navy Seal series Terminal List with Chris Pratt and he was a script consultant on upcoming Apple+ TV series, Invasion.
The Black Box series, which will be informed by Adeleke’s experiences in Human Intelligence Gathering, will introduce Nigerian-born Kali Kent and the Black Box special ops program, a top-secret program buried within the CIA. Kent, the son of a Nigerian tribal chief, is considered a chameleon agent within Black Box, whose agents are deployed to neutralize America’s most dangerous enemies.
David Highfill, VP, Executive Editor...
Adeleke, whose credits include Michael Bay movies 6 Underground and Transformers: The Last Knight, as well as the director’s upcoming movie Ambulance, is currently filming Lionsgate action movie The Plane with Gerard Butler. Upcoming he also has Amazon’s Navy Seal series Terminal List with Chris Pratt and he was a script consultant on upcoming Apple+ TV series, Invasion.
The Black Box series, which will be informed by Adeleke’s experiences in Human Intelligence Gathering, will introduce Nigerian-born Kali Kent and the Black Box special ops program, a top-secret program buried within the CIA. Kent, the son of a Nigerian tribal chief, is considered a chameleon agent within Black Box, whose agents are deployed to neutralize America’s most dangerous enemies.
David Highfill, VP, Executive Editor...
- 8/19/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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