Focus Features Acquires Worldwide Rights to Ice Cube, Tommy Lee Jones Film

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to a new movie called Outside Man.

Brian Helgeland is writing and directing it.

Ice Cube plays Ruben, a former mob enforcer who has just left prison.

Ruben wants to change his life, so he moves to rural Texas.

There, he gets a job with Gus, a furniture craftsman and retired Texas Ranger, played by Tommy Lee Jones.

The two men become friends.

But things get difficult when events from their pasts catch up with them.

Filming is expected to start in November.