Marwan Kenzari, who plays Jafar in Disney’s live-action Aladdin which dominated the box office this weekend bringing in over 200 million dollars world wide has joined Charlize Theron and Kiki Layne in The Old Guard, Skydance and Netflix’s adaptation of the comic from author Greg Rucka.
Gina Prince-Bythewood is directing the action feature that will tell the story
of a small group of soldiers, led by a woman named Andy (Theron), who are inexplicably immortal and have been working as mercenaries through the ages. The novelty of not dying long gone, the group gets a jolt in their bones when they discover the existence of a new immortal, a black woman serving in the Marines, at the same time as a nefarious organization captures their undying actions on camera.
While some of the Aladdin’s biggest critiques was the miscast of Kenzari as Jafar, the performance itself was not something to be frowned upon. This time around Kenzari will play a man who was once a Moor warrior.
