Daniel Brooks joins HBO Max Suicide Squad Spinoff Series – Deadline


Grammy and three-time S.A.G. Pair winner Daniel Brooks H.B.O. Joining Max Peacemaker Spin spin f series for James Gunn’s next Suicide Squad Movie. He joins John Cena, who is playing the title character, and Steve Egg, who reprimands his John Economo character from the film.

Brooks will play the role of Liota Adebayo in the series, who will explore the origins of Cena’s peacemaker character, a man who believes in peace at any cost – no matter how many people he has to kill to get it. Suicide Squad August Gust on is set to hit theaters. Gunn wrote all eight episodes Peacemaker And will direct many episodes. He will serve as an EP as a co-producer with the film’s producer Peter Safran and CA.

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Peacemaker Gun’s Troll Court will be produced by Entertainment and Travel Company in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television. Production is set to begin early next year.

Brooks is best known for her role as Tasha “Tasty” Jefferson in Netflix Orange is the new black, For which she received three SAG awards for the pair. For her performance, Brooks received two NAACP Image Award nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. She was also the recipient of the Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Actress. She is currently shooting in the title role Mahalia Jackson Project For director Kenny Leone.

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Broadway enters Brooks’ Tony-winning resurgence Color Purple. For her performances, she was nominated for a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and a Theater World Award for a Grammy Award as well as a signature Broadway debut.

Her recent feature work features a lead role opposite Anna Kendrick in the Chris Morris feature The Day Shell Comes. See Produced by Hundred and Published by IFC; Neon feature film Purity Against Alfred Woodard, Wendell Pierce and Aldis Hodge, who won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize; Aziz Ansari’s Emmy-winning Netflix Come Come Madi series recurring role Master of Non; And HBO. Guest main roles on High maintenance And Girls. Brooks’ voice work includes Sony’s animated feature Angry Birds And HBO Max’s Very close.

Brooks declared his four-track EP entitled Four. She co-wrote four songs, including “asons tuo”, featured in the final part of the series. Orange is the new black.

Brooks has been reassigned by CAA, Door 24, ID and Attorney Paul Hastings.