Laurence Fishburne is looking to step back behind the camera and is currently developing a directing project, “The Rule of Nines,” with producer and casting director Bonnie Timmermann (“I Origins,” “Roofman”) and actor André Holland (“Moonlight”). John Connor wrote the script.

“The fact that I’ve been making films since I was 11 or 12 means that I’m a filmmaker,” he tells Variety . “It makes me really prepared.”

Fishburne made his directorial debut with 2000’s “Once in the Life,” which he wrote and helmed. He has since turned down a number of directing offers, citing a lack of passion or connection with the material. Now, he says, he’s ready to embrace a more sustained run behind the camera.

“This may be the moment where I move into the director space in a real, consistent kind of

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