Miles Caton has found his next big role, and he’ll be sharing the screen with a legend. The Sinners breakout has joined Denzel Washington and Teyonah Parris in an untitled thriller from director Christopher McQuarrie at Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists, Deadline reports.

Caton will play Washington’s grandson, a young man the actor’s character never knew existed. Washington stars as a former police detective serving a life sentence who is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Given about six months to live, he’s granted compassionate release and returns home hoping to make things right.

That means reconnecting with the estranged daughter he walked away from, played by Parris, and meeting the grandson he never knew he had. According to the official logline, “He only wants to make amends and forget his dark past, but his dark past has not forgotten him.”

Outside of 2012’s Jack Reacher, it’s McQuarrie’s first time directing a film outside that partnership since The Way of the Gun more than 25 years ago.

For Caton, it’s the first role since his star-making debut in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, where he played Sammie, the young blues guitarist and cousin to Michael B. Jordan’s twins.

The performance earned him the Critics Choice Award for Best Young Actor and more than 30 nominations, including a BAFTA Rising Star nod. The 21-year-old, the son of gospel singer Timiney Figueroa, got his start in music singing backup for H.E.R. before making the leap to acting.

The untitled thriller set to hit theaters on October 1.

Now, the young star who captured audiences with a guitar and a voice in Sinners will go toe-to-toe with one of the greatest actors of all time, and a whole new generation will get to watch it happen.