Jamesy Meets His Peeps

Mary-Louise Parker, James Woods, and Ving Rhames have all joined the cast of the indie drama Jamesy Boy says Deadline.

The film follows James (Spencer Lofranco), as he “goes from suburban street gangs to a maximum-security prison surrounded by hardened criminals,” but soon “fosters an unlikely friendship with a convicted murderer who ends up becoming his mentor and ultimately defines and changes the course of his life.”

Parker will play the boy’s mother; Rhames, his mentor in prison; and Woods is an authority figure at a detention center.

Trevor White wrote and will direct the project

Lane Shadgett. Tim White, Maria Norman, Steven P. Saeta, Galen Walker and Scott Mednick will produce the film.

Production for the project begins March 4 in Baltimore