Spider-Man’s Jon Watts in talks to direct Michael B. Jordan in Methuselah

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Jon Watts has spent the past several years in the Marvel Cinematic Universe directing SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING and the upcoming SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, but although his next project may take him away from the MCU, he'll be uniting with a familiar MCU star.

Deadline has reported that Jon Watts is currently in negotiations to helm METHUSELAH, a HIGHLANDER-type project which has been a priority at Warner Bros. for a number of years and at one point had tapped Tom Cruise for the lead. Michael B. Jordan (BLACK PANTHER) is now slated to star in METHUSELAH as a man who has managed to survive for hundreds of years without showing the physical signs of age. During that time, he's acquired vast intellectual knowledge, from the sciences to multiple languages and survival skills. The studio is also hoping that METHUSELAH will have a lot of franchise potential. The most recent draft of the script was by Tony Gilroy (BEIRUT), but Deadline states that Jon Watts and Michael B. Jordan are planning to search for a new writer to tackle the project.

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME will hit theaters on July 5, 2019, while Michael B. Jordan's next film will be JUST MERCY, a biopic drama based on Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson's 2014 memoir of one of his first cases, which dealt with Walter McMillian, a young black man sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit. The film is set for a January 17, 2020 release.