Shameik Moore, Paris Jackson Board ‘One Spoon of Chocolate’ Thriller

Shameik Moore and Paris Jackson have grabbed lead roles in the drama One Spoon of Chocolate, which has started production in Atlanta.

Rapper and filmmaker Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, also known RZA, is directing from his own screenplay. The feature follows an ex-military convict leaving the city for a small town where he ends up finding love, danger and more trouble than he can handle, according to a synopsis from the producers.

RZA made his directorial debut with 2012’s The Man With the Iron Fists, in which he starred as the title character and penned the script alongside producer Eli Roth. His directorial follow-up, the Lionsgate rap and poetry drama Love Beats Rhymes, starred Azealia Banks, Common, Jill Scott and Lorraine Toussaint.

RZA’s acting credits include Paul Walker’s final film Brick Mansions, Fox’s Gang Related (as a series regular) and Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, for which he shared a SAG nomination with the rest of the cast.

The ensemble cast for One Spoon of Chocolate includes RJ Cyler, Harry Goodwins, Johnell Young, Michael Harney, Rockmond Dunbar, E’myri Crutchfield and Blair Underwood. RZA Productions and Xen Diagram Media are producing One Spoon of Chocolate, which was long in the making for RZA.

“I’ve read many times how some films take seven years to make from conception to release. This project has been percolating since 2011 and finally 13 years later we’re able to bring it to production. I’ve never been so excited to start a journey as I am about this. And with the great team and cast I have beside me we are destined for a classic,” RZA said in a statement on Tuesday.

He is producing the feature with producer Paul Hall (White Men Can’t Jump, Shaft), and executive producers Joe Genier, Talani Diggs and Mitchell Divine Diggs. RZA is represented by CAA and King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano LLP.