He resides in Los Angeles, where he supports the charity Lupus LA. In 2018, he is also starring as Guy Montag in the HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury's science fiction classic Fahrenheit 451 (2018). A devoted fan of comic books growing up, Jordan starred as the villain, Eric Killmonger, in the 2018 box office smash Black Panther (2018). The film was released on Thanksgiving 2015 by MGM and Warner Brothers. Jordan reunited with Ryan Coogler for Creed (2015), starring alongside Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson. Jordan previously starred in 20th Century Fox's box office hit Chronicle (2012) (which was also directed by Trank), a supernatural thriller that follows three Portland teens (MBJ, Dane Dehaan, and Alex Russell) as they develop incredible powers after exposure to a mysterious substance That Awkward Moment (2015) opposite Zac Efron and Miles Teller for Focus Films and the George Lucas produced film Red Tails (2012), the story of the first African American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during WWII aka The Tuskegee Airmen. The film was released on August 7th 2015. In 2015, Jordan starred in Josh Trank's Fantastic Four (2015), playing the role of 'Johnny Storm' aka 'The Human Torch', opposite Miles Teller, Jamie Bell, and Kate Mara for 20th Century Fox. Jordan also won the 2013 Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Actor. The 2013 New York Film Critics Circle honored it with Best First Film and the picture was also chosen as one of the Top Ten Films at the 2013 National Board of Review Awards, where Jordan took home the award for Breakthrough Actor.
The has garnered many awards including Best First Feature at the 2014 Independent Spirit Awards, Outstanding Independent Motion Picture at the 2014 NAACP Image Awards and the 2014 Stanley Kramer Award from the Producer's Guild of America. It also screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category. It premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it received the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for U.S. The cast includes Octavia Spencer and Melonie Diaz, and was produced by Forest Whitaker (Significant Films). The film is an account of Oscar's controversial slaying by police officers on a San Francisco train platform. Jordan successfully took on his first major leading film role when he starred as Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station (2013). He then went on to star as quarterback Vince Howard on Friday Night Lights (2006) (NBC), before playing a recovering alcoholic, Alex, on NBC's Parenthood (2010).
First, Jordan played the hard-shelled but softhearted Wallace in HBO's dramatic hit series The Wire (2002). Born with a unnatural level of gymnastic agility and later gaining the ability to teleport, Kurt became a high wire wonder, until a violent mob drove him. Jordan has starred in three of the most critically acclaimed television dramas of the past decade. Born to a Neyaphem Mutant, claiming to be the inspiration for Satan, Azazel, and the shape-shifting mutant terrorist, Mystique, Kurt Wagner was abandoned at birth, due to his demonic appearance, and raised highly religious by circus Romani. (He is not related to, or named after, basketball legend Michael Jordan.) His middle name, Bakari, means "noble promise" in Swahili. He is the son of Donna (Davis), a high school counselor, and Michael A. Jordan, the middle of three children, was born in Santa Ana, California and raised in Newark, New Jersey. and to use it to help themselves and the world.Michael B. So everyone has the potential to find that magic. And that's true regardless of age, gender, background or any other description.
Even if they haven't yet discovered that magic, it's there. I really believe that everyone has some special magic down inside. Beyond the story itself, all of that is a powerful metaphor for the hidden potential in every person. And that he might someday become the greatest wizard of all time, the celebrated fellow we call Merlin, is an even bigger miracle. He doesn't even know his own name! That he even survives this terrible day is a miracle. "The whole series begins when a lone boy washes ashore, half-drowned and barely alive, with no memory at all of his own identity. "There are two core ideas in the Merlin books that resonate with people around the world: the magic in every person and the inspiration of nature," Barron recently explained to.
Barron has penned twelve books within the Merlin Saga since 1996, which were packaged as the five-book The Lost Years of Merlin epic, the Merlin's Dragons trilogy, the Great Tree of Avalon trilogy, the Book of Magic companion, and the recently-released Giant prequel.
The Merlin film would follow the origin story of a young Merlin who would go on to become the mentor of the classic literary character King Arthur.