EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy alum Jesse Williams will star in Paramount Pictures’ high concept family action movie Secret Headquarters in what we’re hearing is the role of the villain.
The pic, scheduled to hit theaters on Aug. 12, 2022, is described as Home Alone set in the Batcave.
Williams joins announced cast: Owen Wilson, Michael Peña, Walker Scobell, Momona Tamada, Keith L. Williams, Abby James Witherspoon and Kezii Curtis in a feature which Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman are producing.
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman will direct and wrote the current draft along with Josh Koenigsberg. The story is an original idea from Christopher Yost.
Williams has played Dr. Jackson Avery on 272 episodes of ABC/Shondaland’s Grey’s Anatomy and also played the character in the spinoff Station 19. He starred on the Hulu minseries Little Fires Everywhere and he’s heading back to Broadway to star in Richard Greenberg’s play Take Me Out. The play follows Darren Lemming, star center fielder for the Empires, who reveals he is gay and faces a barrage of long-held unspoken prejudices. Facing some hostile teammates and fraught friendships, Darren is forced to contend with the challenges of being a gay person of color within the confines of a classic American institution. As the Empires struggle to rally toward a championship season, the players and their fans begin to question tradition, their loyalties and the price of victory.
Williams is also starring in the movie Marked Man opposite Dewanda Wise and Winston Duke from Mark Gordon Pictures.
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