Future Projects
Lawton's recent work includes both writing and directing Jackson, a comedy-drama-musical starring Barry Primus, Charles Robinson, Steve Guttenberg, Debra Jo Rupp and opera singers Ella Lee, Shawnette Sulker and Clamma Dale. The movie takes place on a single day involving two homeless men surviving on Los Angeles’s Skid Row. Lawton wrote two songs for the movie, Downtown Birthday and Love Cannot Be. According to his publicist, Jackson was shot mainly in Downtown Los Angeles, except from one scene shot in Kentucky.
His latest script with South Park creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, is in development at Paramount Studios.
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