After his despicable role in Django Unchained, Samuel L. Jackson will be returning to our screens as a villain again early next year in Kingsman: The Secret Service. It seems he’s on a run of playing bad people at the moment, as he’s now in talks to snatch the title role in **The Black Phantom.
The film finds Kevin Hart working again with his **Ride Along **director Tim Story, playing a double-crossed mob hit man who learns that – in the grand tradition of movie hit men – his old bosses now want to kill him. And the man tasked with the job? Notorious assassin the Black Phantom. But somehow, a different dynamic emerges.
While it sounds like it could be a gritty thriller, it’s actually a comedy, with Jackson looking to stretch his funny muscles again and work for the first time opposite Hart, who is on a roll at the moment. Story will be working from a script by Dave Lease and Megan Hinds, and had grabbed Jamie Foxx for the role but he’s had to drop out due to scheduling changes.
The ever-busy Jackson, as mentioned above, will be Valentine in Matthew Vaughn’s latest, which has just been pushed back to February next year{