EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Pierre is set to co-star alongside Margaret Qualley in Love Of Your Life for Amazon MGM Studios. Patrick Schwarzenegger is also on board with Rachel Morrison directing. Julia Cox wrote the script with Ryan Gosling and Jessie Henderson are producing through their Open Invite Entertainment banner.
Plot details are under wraps. Deadline was first to report the major script sale in October after an intense bidding war, which Gosling and Henderson won for Amazon MGM Studios.
Pierre is coming off a monster year where he not only had to hit films on his hand but landed one of the more sought after roles of 2024. The Netflix thriller Rebel Ridge was not only a massive streaming hit but earned him strong reviews that led to wins at both the Gotham TV Award for “Outstanding Performance in an Original Film” and the NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special.
He followed that up by voicing Mufasa in Barry Jenkins Mufasa: The Lion King, which went on to be one of the biggest hits at the box-office grossing more than $700 million at the worldwide box-office.
In between these hits he went on to land the lead role in the highly-anticipated HBO Green Lantern series, Lanterns, which he is currently in production. Also on the TV side he has landed a new leading role in the latest season of The Morning Show.
Additional credits include: National Geographic’s Genius: MLK/X, Brother, Foe, and Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad. He is represented by WME, Anonymous Content, Hamilton Hodell and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
