Freddie Gibbs, YG and WWE star CM Punk are among the names tapped to appear in the forthcoming indie horror film Night Patrol.
According to a Hollywood Reporter article published on Friday (October 17), Justin Long, Jermaine Fowler and RJ Cyler will star in the Ryan Prows-directed flick, due out in 2025.
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Per the description, “LAPD officer (Fowler) must put aside his differences with the area’s street gangs when he discovers a local police task force is harboring a horrific secret that endangers the residents of the housing projects he grew up in.”
This won’t be the first acting project for either rapper.
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Most recently, Freddie Gibbs starred in the critically acclaimed film Down With The King in the role of Money Merc, who heads to a rural community in Berkshires, Massachusetts to record his next album. While searching for new inspiration, Merc’s turns his attention to farming thanks to a friendship with his neighbor
Loving his new lifestyle, Merc then abruptly announces his retirement from the rap game before his manager tries to get him to have a change of heart.
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Last year, The New York Times praised his acting performance in the film and noted they felt he was snubbed out of a proper Best Actor nomination, which blew the Gary, Indiana rapper away.
Down With The King was released on June 28, 2022, after having been screened at several festivals, including the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in France.
Gibbs told Desus & Mero that once he was cast in the role, which was his first acting role ever, he began revisiting the work of some of his favorite Hollywood actors.
“I really been studying cats like Samuel L. Jackson — that’s my favorite actor of all time, period,” he said. “So I just been looking at some stuff and tryna figure my way out and some things I wanna do, and like I said, really studying and writing and starting to get a vibe for it.”
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YG has also made several appearances in film and TV, including starring in and directing his own short film for his 2014 album, Blame It On The Streets.
