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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Debuts As John Creasy In First-Look At Netflix’s ‘Man On Fire’

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II portrays a PTSD-afflicted Special Forces mercenary seeking redemption in an eight-episode Netflix adaptation of A.J. Quinnell's novels.

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has transformed into John Creasy, the main character in the upcoming Netflix series Man on Fire, revealed in a first-look photo (below) released on Tuesday. The eight-episode streaming drama is an adaptation based on A.J. Quinnell’s Man on Fire and The Perfect Kill, the first two books in Quinnell’s five-book series. Man on Fire tells […]

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The ex-CIA agent of Denzel Washington in Man on Fire will resume service with a new face in the Netflix series of the same name. Denzel Washington made a big flop in Highest 2 Lowest by Spike Lee on Apple TV, musical remake of the masterpiece Between heaven and hell by Akira Kurosawa. Nothing [...]

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