EXCLUSIVE: Ice Cube and Tommy Lee Jones are on board to star in the Teton Ridge pic Outside Man from Oscar-winner Brian Helgeland. Helgeland will write and direct the film. Jillian Share and Jen Gorton will produce via their Teton Ridge Entertainment banner with Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz producing through their Cube Vision banner. Bill Gerber will also produce.
The film follows a former Chicago mob enforcer (Cube), who after being released from prison, is a man intent on changing his life. Disappearing into rural Texas, he finds work under a skilled furniture craftsman and retired Texas Ranger Gus Wanamaker (Jones). As Ruben and Gus form an unlikely friendship, that bond is jeopardized when both men’s pasts threaten to catch up with them.
Cube Vision’s Ben Hurwitz will exec produce. Sources tell Deadline the package recently hit the market this week and is already drawing attention from
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