{"id":686939,"date":"2026-05-22T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686939\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:32:13","slug":"dacosta-to-direct-mahershala-ali-in-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686939\/","title":{"rendered":"DaCosta To Direct Mahershala Ali In &#8220;Driver&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dacosta-to-direct-mahershala-ali-in-driver.jpg\" data-caption=\"Marvel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dacosta-to-direct-mahershala-ali-in-driver.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"dacosta-to-direct-mahershala-ali-in-driver\"\/><\/a>Marvel<\/p>\n<p>\u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,\u201d \u201cHedda\u201d and \u201cCandyman\u201d director Nia DaCosta has reportedly been set to direct the new action feature \u201cDriver\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofreel.com\/blog\/2026\/5\/20\/nia-dacosta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World of Reel<\/a> broke the news, indicating that Mahershala Ali will star in the movie as a \u201chardened Nigerian smuggler who, after losing everything, accepts one last job transporting migrants across Africa while fleeing ruthless enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film is reportedly being independently financed, without studio involvement at present though is expected to attract buyers quickly.  Filming begins in Spain and Morocco in January.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows hot on the heels the other week of DaCosta being set to direct two episodes of Amazon Prime Video\u2019s TV series adaptation of the acclaimed Image Comics title \u201cSex Criminals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She also recently signed on to executive produce and write on the Hulu pilot \u201cSouthern Bastards\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>DaCosta also famously spoke last year about her time filming \u201cThe Marvels\u201d, telling a screenwriter\u2019s fest (via <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/nia-dacosta-the-marvels-hedda-storyhouse-1236359284\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>) that it was like being part of a machine and not the way she would make movies: \u201cThere was a certain point when I was like, \u2018Ok, this isn\u2019t going to be the movie that I pitched or even the first version of the movie that I shot\u2019 so I realised that this is now an experience and it\u2019s learning curve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/first-the-batman-part-ii-set-videos-emerge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First \u201cThe Batman: Part II\u201d Set Videos Emerge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,\u201d \u201cHedda\u201d and \u201cCandyman\u201d director Nia DaCosta has reportedly been set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-686939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}