Mary J. Blige - (Billboard photo)
Mary J. Blige, who scored two Oscar nominations for her work in Mudbound, has signed on to star in Body Cam.
The movie is a horror thriller being made by Paramount's Paramount Players division.
Body Cam focuses on several LAPD police officers who are haunted by an evil spirit that is tied to the murder of a black youth at the hands of two white cops, all of which are caught on a body cam video that was destroyed in a cover-up.
Blige will play an officer who becomes rocked by visions and begins to investigate the cover-up.
Blige has appeared in several films, inlcuding Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself and Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise.
It was her performance as a hard-working wife and mother in racial drama Mudbound that drew not just an Oscar nomination but Golden Globe and SAG Award mentions, on top of the acclaim of co-writing the movie's original song Mighty River.
She has since continued making inroads into acting, nabbing a key role in Netflix's comic adaptation series The Umbrella Academy.
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