Tenoch Huerta is slithering towards a new role.
Black Label Media has added the 45-year-old Mexican actor and three others to the cast of its thriller Copperhead, starring Miles Teller.
In addition to Huerta, the new cast additions include Jason Momoa, Adria Arjona and Kiefer Sutherland.
Character details are being kept under wraps. The casting news comes ahead of this year’s Toronto Film Festival, where Black Bear is launching sales on the movie.
In Copperhead, when an undercover drug deal explodes into violence, a veteran detective is forced to team with a young federal agent to unravel the conspiracy within their elite task force.
Venice prize-winner John Swab is set to direct from a script by Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott, with production kicking off in September.
The project is financed by Black Label Media, which is producing alongside Teller’s Lime Tree Productions and Swab’s Milk Boy. CAA Media Finance and WME Independent are co-repping domestic rights.
Huerta is known for his role of Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which he’s set to reprise in the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday.
Upcoming, he’ll be seen starring opposite Taylor Kitsch in the hostage thriller Eleven Days from Peter Landesman.
Coming off of Disney+’s Andor and the Neon comedy Splitsville, Arjona will next be seen starring in A24’s Onslaught,out September 4, and Michael B. Jordan’s The Thomas Crown Affair, which Amazon MGM releases in March 2027.
Other projects on her slate include the Amazon series Criminal, Sarah-Violet Bliss’ erotic thriller Scorn and James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow.
