Nine times Grammy award winner Mary Jane Blige, better known as Mary J. Blige, is without any shadow of a doubt a very talented woman. Not only from her successful music career, including 13 solo albums since 1992 and the already mentioned Grammys, besides other awards, but because she is proving that she is an extremely competent actress. Last year she made history being the first African American woman to receive Oscar and Golden Globes nominations both as Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Original Song thanks to her work in after World War II racial drama Mudbound (2017).
The acting bug has done its job on Blige, and she has recently signed to star supernatural horror movie Body Cam, producing Paramount Players, a film studio division of Paramount Pictures. The movie has been written by Nicholas McCarthy, the writer and director of horror movies The Pact (2012), Home (2014), and the segment “Easter” in Holidays (2016). McCarthy is currently busy working on the pre-production of his upcoming film Descendant, so the directional duties have recalled on Malik Vitthal, responsible of the multi-awarded crime drama Imperial Dreams (2014).
Body Cam, based on an earlier screenplay by Richmond Riedel, centers around several LAPD police officers who are haunted by a malevolent spirit that is tied to the murder of a black youth at the hands of two white cops. All of them are caught on a body cam video that was destroyed in a cover-up. But the spirit claims for its own kind of justice, and mysterious inexplicable deaths start to happen.
Body Cam is currently in pre-production and setting up the final cast. So it is fair to think we won’t have the movie in our screens anytime sooner than the second half of the next year 2019, if not even in 2020.
