Anthony Mackie will produce and star in Netflix's upcoming action-adventure `The Ogun` from producer Jason Michael Berman.

`The Ogun` centers on Mackie's character Xavier Rhodes, who takes his teenage daughter to Nigeria to find a cure for the rare genetic condition that he passed on to her. When his daughter is kidnapped, Rhodes goes on a rampage through the criminal underworld to find her before it's too late.

No director is yet attached to `The Ogun,` written by stuntman-turned-screenwriter Madison Turner. Turner previously set up his Blacklist script `The Liberators` at Warner Bros. with Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society and Safehouse Pictures attached. He is currently rewriting an adaptation of Ed Brubaker's `Kill or Be Killed` for Thunder Road.

Mackie was nominated for Spirit Awards for `Brother to Brother` and `The Hurt Locker.` He portrayed Sam Wilson/Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, most recently in `Avengers: Endgame.` Mackie will return to the role in the upcoming Disney Plus series `The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.` He is repped by UTA and Inspire Entertainment.

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Berman's Sundance award-winning film `Nine Days` will be released by Sony Pictures Classics in January. Berman is currently in production on Anthony Mandler's `Surrounded,` starring Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell and Michael K. Williams. His producing credits include `Uncorked,` `Otherhood,` `Burning Sands,` `The Last Days of American Crime,` `Little Evil,` `Amateur` and `Juanita.`