XBOX Developing Scripted TV Series Based On Rapper Nas’ Life
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By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 11, 2014 @ 11:53am PST
Tags: Nas, Street Dreams, Xbox
EXCLUSIVE: As Nas marks the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, a half-hour series project loosely based on his life as a hip hop artist in the 1990's is getting off the ground with a deal at XBOX Entertainment Studios. Titled Street Dreams, the project, from Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell’s Electric City Entertainment (The Place Beyond The Pines), is set in the 1990's in Long Island’s Queens Bridge housing complex, where Nas grew up, and takes a look at music, family and the trials and tribulations of the rap game.
Street Dreams is being written/directed by Jonathan Levine, who also grew up in New York, spending his formative years in the 1990's. New York in the 90's was the backdrop for his coming of age feature The Wackness, winner of the Audience Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Street Dreams is now being developed, with Nas involved in the writing and music. His manager, Anthony Seleh, executive produces with Patricof, Howell and Levine. Patricof and Howell recently developed bodybuilding half-hour Muscle for HBO. Xbox has been actively buying scripted projects though it is yet to launch its first series. It also has in the works a scripted pro skaters comedy series from writer Ian Edelman, a reality show about street soccer titled Every Street United that may be scheduled to air alongside the upcoming Fifa 2014 World Cup, a revival of the UK's BBC Sci-Fi hit Blake's 7, and a Halo Television show produced by Steven Spielberg to name a few.
http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/xbox-developing-1990s-comedy-series-based-on-rapper-nas-life/
Tags: Nas, Street Dreams, Xbox
EXCLUSIVE: As Nas marks the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, a half-hour series project loosely based on his life as a hip hop artist in the 1990's is getting off the ground with a deal at XBOX Entertainment Studios. Titled Street Dreams, the project, from Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell’s Electric City Entertainment (The Place Beyond The Pines), is set in the 1990's in Long Island’s Queens Bridge housing complex, where Nas grew up, and takes a look at music, family and the trials and tribulations of the rap game.
Street Dreams is being written/directed by Jonathan Levine, who also grew up in New York, spending his formative years in the 1990's. New York in the 90's was the backdrop for his coming of age feature The Wackness, winner of the Audience Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Street Dreams is now being developed, with Nas involved in the writing and music. His manager, Anthony Seleh, executive produces with Patricof, Howell and Levine. Patricof and Howell recently developed bodybuilding half-hour Muscle for HBO. Xbox has been actively buying scripted projects though it is yet to launch its first series. It also has in the works a scripted pro skaters comedy series from writer Ian Edelman, a reality show about street soccer titled Every Street United that may be scheduled to air alongside the upcoming Fifa 2014 World Cup, a revival of the UK's BBC Sci-Fi hit Blake's 7, and a Halo Television show produced by Steven Spielberg to name a few.
http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/xbox-developing-1990s-comedy-series-based-on-rapper-nas-life/