Breaking News: Jaafar Jackson has landed his next role in Supermax, an action thriller from Halloween trilogy director David Gordon Green, joining Will Smith and AnnaSophia Robb as FBI agents probing an impossible murder inside a maximum-security prison. Amazon MGM and Miramax are behind the project, which starts production in mid-August, months after Jackson’s Michael Jackson biopic crossed $1 billion worldwide……see more

Barely a few months after slipping into Michael Jackson’s rhinestone glove for Antoine Fuqua’s biopic, Jaafar Jackson is trading the moonwalk for a maximum-security cell block.

Deadline broke the news on August 3: the actor has landed a role opposite Will Smith in “suppermax” a thriller from David Gordon Green, the filmmaker behind the Halloween trilogy. Smith and AnnaSophia Robb play FBI agents chasing an impossible murder inside a supposedly escape-proof prison, and Jackson’s part, still under wraps, is described as central to the plot.

It’s a striking pivot for the newcomer whose uncle’s story just became the first biopic ever to cross $1 billion at the global box office.The premise is a locked-room mystery pushed to its limit. Two FBI agents, played by Will Smith and AnnaSophia Robb, investigate a seemingly impossible murder committed inside a maximum-security prison.

Amazon MGM has yet to reveal who Jackson will play, though his character is described as pivotal to the central plot. Robb boarded the project in July, a few weeks before Jackson’s casting was announced.