According to Variety, Method Man has joined Starz’s Power spinoff prequel Power Book 2: Ghost.
Power Book 2: Ghost serves as one of several installments in the Power franchise under Kemp’s overall deal with Lionsgate, Starz’s parent company.
Method Man will play David Maclean, a sharp and ethically challenged attorney who falls into the fictional murderous drug-riddled world run by Blige’s character.
His upcoming projects include the thriller Waldo, starring alongside Clancy Brown and Charlie Hunnam, and Ricky Staub’s Concrete Cowboys with Idris Elba.