Samuel L. Jackson to play retired version of pretty much every other Samuel L. Jackson character ever

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Samuel L. Jackson will be playing the “retired” version of any number of other badass Samuel L. Jackson roles pretty soon, with Deadline reporting that the veteran kicker of other people’s asses has signed on for a new, as-yet-untitled movie about a hitman. After a long career of killin’ folks, said purveyor of artisanal murders hangs up the tools with which he hits the men—until he gets dragged back into the game for one last job. Which yes, sounds a lot like the plot of multiple John Wick movies, except instead of canine vengeance, Jackson’s trained killer gets back to bloody basics because his idiot nephew gets in trouble with his former employers, and he has to either murder him, or bail him out.