However, behind these new efforts, a criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scale was unfolding within the police department. Entrusted with fixing the city’s drug and gun crisis, Jenkins chose to exploit it instead.
25.02.2021 - 23:59 / variety.com
Joe Otterson TV ReporterA limited series about Mike Tyson has been ordered at Hulu, Variety has learned.Titled “Iron Mike,” the series reunites several key players from the Oscar-winning film “I, Tonya.” Steven Rogers, who wrote the film, created “Iron Mike” and serves as executive producer. Craig Gillespie, who directed the film, will direct and executive produce the series.
However, behind these new efforts, a criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scale was unfolding within the police department. Entrusted with fixing the city’s drug and gun crisis, Jenkins chose to exploit it instead.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterDavid Simon and George Pelecanos are returning to HBO — and Baltimore — with a limited series based on the true story of the infamous Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force, Variety has learned from sources.Simon and Pelecanos will write and executive produce the drama, which is titled “We Own This City.” It is based on the book of the same name by journalist Justin Fenton.HBO declined to comment.The series brings Simon and Pelecanos back to the streets of Baltimore, with the
Emmy winner Ray Liotta will make a return to series television as a lead opposite Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser in Apple’s limited series In With The Devil, an adaptation of James Keene and Hillel Levin’s 2010 novel In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption, from Richard Plepler’s Eden Productions, Imperative Entertainment and Apple Studios.
EXCLUSIVE: Former Luke Cage star Theo Rossie is set as a series regular opposite Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes in the Netflix limited series True Story, written and executive produced by Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman and produced by Hart’s HartBeat Production.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterWagner Moura has signed on to star opposite Elisabeth Moss in the Apple series “Shining Girls,” Variety has learned.The series is an adaptation of the 2013 Lauren Beukes novel of the same name. Moss plays a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.
the Hollywood Reporter. The Disney-backed platform claimed that they briefed Tyson, 54, on the show, but the boxing icon was reportedly not involved with its creation.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterMike Tyson has come out strongly against the planned Hulu series based on his life, “Iron Mike.”The series, which was announced earlier on Thursday, has been given an eight-episode order at the streamer and is said to explore Tyson’s life and career in and out of the ring.“Hulu’s announcement to do an unauthorized mini-series of the Tyson story without compensation, although unfortunate, isn’t surprising,” Tyson posted on Instagram.
Mike Tyson is getting in the ring with Hulu over the streamer’s limited series about the boxing legend.
Mike Tyson is speaking out in response to the news that Hulu will be making an eight-episode limited series about his life.
Mike Tyson has a lifetime of experience hitting other people, and now he hits the world of biopics.
Mike Tyson's life is being turned into a limited series — which Margot Robbie will be producing. Hulu has picked up an eight-episode series called, from the team behind the streamer announced at its Television Critics Association winter press tour on Thursday. The series promises to explore the «wild, tragic and controversial» life and career of Tyson, one of the most polarizing figures in sports culture.
Hulu is putting its gloves on after handing a straight-to-series order to Mike Tyson limited series Iron Mike.