On the heels of his breakout turn in the hit Sundance movie “Sleight,” Jacob Latimore has signed on to join Will Smith in the thought-provoking drama “Collateral Beauty,” it was announced Friday.
Oscar winner David Frankel is directing the movie, which surrounds Smith with a top-notch ensemble cast including Oscar winners Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet, Oscar nominees Edward Norton and Keira Knightley, as well as Michael Pena and Naomie Harris.
Allan Loeb wrote the original screenplay, which follows a successful New York advertising executive (Smith) who experiences a personal tragedy and retreats from life entirely, prompting his colleagues to devise a drastic plan to force him to confront his grief in a surprising and profoundly human way.