Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, Brian Helgeland’s OUTSIDE MAN, starring Ice Cube and Tommy Lee Jones from Teton Ridge Entertainment. Universal Pictures International will handle international distribution for the studio. The film is expected to start production in November.

OUTSIDE MAN, written and directed by Helgeland, is produced by Jillian Share and Jen Gorton of Teton Ridge Entertainment; Ice Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz of Cube Vision; Bill Gerber; and executive produced by Brian Helgeland; Justin Bursch; Madeleine Moore for Teton Ridge Entertainment; and Ben Hurwitz for Cube Vision.

When former Chicago mob enforcer Ruben Bowman (Ice Cube) is released from prison, he is a man intent on changing his life. Disappearing into rural Texas, he finds work under a skilled furniture craftsman and retired Texas Ranger Gus Wanamaker (Tommy Lee Jones). As Ruben and Gus form an unlikely friendship, that bond is jeopardized when both men’s pasts threaten to catch up with them.