Jaden Smith will be starring in the upcoming film, The Good Lord Bird.
Smith will be starring alongside Liev Schreiber in the James McBride slavery-era novel.
The award winning novel tells the story of Henry ‘Onion’ Shackleford [Smith], a cross-dressing young slave who joins up with radical abolitionist John Brown [Schriber] and his gang of freedom fighters in 1856 Kansas.
The story is told from the perspective of Onion, who documents Brown’s attempts to end slavery years before the beginning of the Civil War.
The Good Lord Bird will mark Jaden’s first, following his 2013 film After Earth.
McBride will produce the film, while a director has yet to be announced.