Recently freed Freeway Ricky Ross has hooked up with Emmy Award winning actor and writer Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, Alpha Dog, My Sister’s Keeper) to help produce and write a screenplay on Ross’ life.
The untitled, autobiographical film will delve into his upbringing, his time in the game, his time behind bars and his journey to becoming educated.
“I love working with Nick, I think he’s great I love his films,” Rick Ross told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “He and I really vibed the first time we met and I think he truly understands the story. Not only has he been following my life for 25 years but he’s also someone I can kick it with!”
“Freeway Ricky Ross is a living American legend. A modern day street genius. To not know his story is to not understand our country – how it works, what it needs, and what it will do to get it,” Cassavetes told AllHipHop.com. “From his modest Los Angeles beginnings to his meteoric rise to the top of the drug world, Rick’s ‘hustle’ was unparalleled in modern history…but when that government was done with him, it locked him up and left him as the fall guy responsible for the destruction of an entire community.”
Ross and Cassavetes are working with Geno Taylor and Apocolypto Films to help develop the project.
Ross is currently traveling the country enlightening kids via his nonprofit organization The Freeway Foundation.
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