New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- Jaafar Jackson has joined Will Smith and AnnaSophia Robb in Supermax, an upcoming action thriller from Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax.

The casting marks Jackson's next major project following his breakout performance as his late uncle, Michael Jackson, in the biographical drama Michael. The film became a major commercial success and crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, establishing Jackson as one of Hollywood's emerging young actors.

Details about Jackson's role in Supermax are being kept under wraps. However, the character is said to be pivotal to the film's central plot, which follows two FBI agents investigating an apparently impossible murder inside a maximum-security prison.

Smith and Robb are...