4 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (“Power” & “BMF” franchises) is processing a caller existent crime bid for A&E, successful a teaming betwixt his G-Unit Film & Television and Jonah Bekhor and Jonas Bell Pasht’s Citizen Jones.
Gang Wars (working title) is simply a raw, unfiltered true-crime bid that rips unfastened America’s astir infamous pack rivalries pinch unprecedented entree and never-before-heard accounts — exposing nan thoroughfare battles, betrayals, and powerfulness plays that built our modern criminal world.
Although nan pack rivalries they scheme to characteristic person not been revealed, location is simply a assortment to take from. Further specifications will beryllium announced astatine a early date.
If nan task is ordered to series, it would go 1 of nan galore unscripted titles from G-Unit and Citizen Jones.
From G-Unit, caller projects see The BMF Documentary: Blowing Money Fast‘s 2nd season, premiering connected January 16 via Starz; Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning, from head and EP Alexandria Stapleton; TikTok Star Murders and The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets for Peacock; and Hip Hop Homicides for WE TV, to sanction a few.
Jackson’s prodco is besides down nan deed “Power” franchise astatine Starz, which has spawned 4 spinoffs that followed nan mothership bid Power, including Power Book II: Ghost, nan prequel Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Power Book IV: Force. The 4th is nan latest prequel, Power: Origins, which follows nan events of nan upcoming 5th and last play of Raising Kanan, and is presently successful accumulation successful New York/New Jersey.
Citizen Jones is down How to Become a Cult Leader, How To Become a Mob Boss, and How To Become a Tyrant for Netflix; The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder for Investigation Discovery, astir nan execution of Byron Griffy; and Blood & Myth for Hulu, astir nan Alaskan character Iñupiaq, who becomes a fugitive aft a bid of convulsive crimes.
Jackson is represented by IAG and lawyer Stephen J Savv.
