Rapper 50 Cent partners with BET to develop a script about the twin brothers who took down El Chapo...
From Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: BET Media Group is developing the unscripted series The Twins from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television and Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media Group.
The series centers around the Flores brothers, Margarito and Pedro, identical twins who became multi-millionaire, cocaine kingpins by the age of 18 and who would eventually assist in the capture and take-down of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
The Twins will serve as a companion to the award-winning podcast Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord, which was produced by Lionsgate Sound and G-Unit Audio, and recently released a second season.
Following their arrest, Margarito and Pedro Flores turned their backs on their lucrative drug operation and cooperated with the DEA in exchange for more lenient sentences. Both served 14 years in prison before being released in 2022 to the witness protection program. Margarito Flores continues to walk on the right side of the law. Earlier this year, he led the seminar, “From Kingpin to Educator,” a one-day event for law enforcement held in Kane County, Illinois, where he shared insider information on how to catch other traffickers. Updates on Pedro Flores are unavailable. El Chapo is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in a Colorado supermax prison.
The Twins is the latest project from G-Unit Film & Television and follows Deadline’s exclusive announcement of Jackson’s collaboration with Chris Albrecht and Jorge Granier of Rubicon Global Media on the new bilingual crime drama series Prey Before You Eat (w/t). Earlier this year, we revealed multiple other projects were in the works including the unscripted tattoo transformation series Redemption Ink with Hulu, the animated series Lady Danger in collaboration with Nicki Minaj for Amazon’s Freevee and the Untitled Action Drama with Lionsgate Television and Paramount + to be directed by Chad Stelheski.
Closing up a year that began with the signing of G-Unit Film & Television’s non-exclusive broadcast deal with Fox, all his current Starz offerings—Power franchise series Ghost, Raising Kanan and Force; as well as BMF— continue to be rating juggernauts for the network and beloved by fans. Jackson is repped by IAG and attorney Stephen Savva.
19 comments:
Good. I'm here for anything other than Tyler Perry at BET.
Tired of the bs gangster crp with thugs masquerading as heroes. Black men need to find someone healthier to look up to.
Wow.
More violence.
Thanks 50.
👀👀
His success is our downfall.
I love power! Yay Fif Queens get da money 💰! B
For the love of money.
Chitown stand up, hopes he films it in my old stomping ground.
More violent dribble peddled to our culture. The crazy thing is I grew up lower and middle class and never encountered half the bullshi* that's portrayed in movies and tv that allegedly represents black American life. We never get to see ourselves as just normal people working, going to school, having relationships like everyone else. It's always some gangster adjacent drug dealing characters or black people struggling. Oh I can't forget about Tyler Perry and his poorly written garbage. Obviously there's an audience for this but it would be nice to have more of a variety.
@ 9:54 AM. Your old stomping ground has been Gentrified.
What 11:40 AM said.
All I heard was drugs and violence. PASS.
Tyler Perry influence is struggle bandit men, drug addict mothers, uppity black rich folks who scheme on each other, sex each other and family. Bad relationship advice.
50 Cents influence is shoot em up, get mine by any means necessary, sex sex sex, drug dealers and criminals in high places. Not like either one is better. They are both toxic. The difference is you won’t see a man in a dress on one platform and you won’t hear constant vulgarity in the other.
Has anyone see Christian Keyes IG post?
Winston Jerome outchea violating Christian Keyes! Come on Snitch don’t start getting shy on us!
Is it Winston? Is Christian just trying to make the jump out of Negro teevee? We need receipts, Christian, and you claim to have them.
@12:24 you funny...street signs neva change and the buildings still up...dummy
12:51pm you funny...street signs neva change and the buildings still up...dummy...
If Black ppl are not seen in a better light like the Cosby show then I don't wacth it.
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