Overview

• Jade Cargill will star as Meeka, a key lieutenant in Harlem’s Apollo Kids gang, marking her first film role alongside Jonathan Majors.
• True Threat follows Majors’s Special Forces operative as he fights through a controlled high-rise to avenge his teenage son’s murder.
• The film is the inaugural feature from Southland Stories and will prominently showcase 52 Blocks, a Black American martial art, when production begins this autumn.
• Cargill joins the project after a breakout WrestleMania 41 performance and brings her athletic prowess and child psychology expertise to the antagonist role.
• Jonathan Majors’s casting reflects his bid to restart his career following a conviction for assault and harassment and participation in a court-mandated intervention program.