Miles Caton has his first big role after Sinners, and he is sharing the screen with Denzel Washington. The 21-year-old actor and singer has joined Washington and Teyonah Parris in Christopher McQuarrie's untitled thriller for Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists, Deadline reported.
Caton will play the grandson of Washington's character. Washington stars as a former police detective serving a life sentence who is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Granted compassionate release with six months to live, he returns home to the estranged daughter he left behind, played by Parris, and a grandson he never knew existed. He wants to make amends and leave his dark past behind, but his past has not forgotten him.
The film opens in theaters Oct. 1, 2027.
Three generations at the center
The casting completes a three-generation Black family at the heart of the story, with an Oscar winner, a rising lead and one of the year's breakout stars. Cup of Soul reported last week when Parris joined Washington in the film.
Caton made his feature debut as Sammie, the gifted young blues guitarist and sharecropper cousin to Michael B. Jordan's twins Smoke and Stack, in Ryan Coogler's Sinners, the film that dominated the NAACP Image Awards. A New York native and the son of gospel singer Timiney Figueroa, Caton has been singing since he was 2 and started his professional career singing backup for H.E.R. He recently signed with Columbia Records and released the single "Lean On," with more music due early next year.
The thriller marks McQuarrie's first directing job outside the Mission: Impossible franchise since Jack Reacher in 2012. Scott Barkan and Gregg Zehentner wrote the screenplay. Producers include Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt for United Artists; Christopher and Heather McQuarrie for Invisible Ink; Joseph Restaino for Hungry Bull Productions; Reza Moheet and Norman Aladjem for Mainstay Entertainment; and Katia Washington and Tommy Harper.
