Rapper T.I. has signed a three-picture deal with Screen Gems that will launch with the crime drama “Bone Deep,” in which the hip-hop star will join Matt Dillon(Crash), and English actor Idris Elba (The Wire, Prom Night).
The move amounts to a long-term investment in the rapper, who faces a year-long prison stretch for weapons possession that begins next spring. The second Screen Gems film will be “Boulevard,” a drama in development in which T.I. will star; the third picture has yet to be determined.
Past acting credits for T.I., whose real name is Tip Harris, include “American Gangster” and “ATL.”
His film work will be scheduled around the legal complications faced by Harris, who has also cut a deal to topline a six-episode MTV reality show that will chronicle the 1,000 hours of community service he’ll perform before heading off to serve his sentence (Daily Variety, May 28). I wonder if his acting work will be included in the reality show?
“Bone Deep” concerns a group of bank robbers who pull off a daring highrise heist and are dragged into one last job by a freshly paroled cohort. Pic will be helmed by John Luessenhop (”Lock Down”), who co-wrote the script with Gabriel Casseus, Avery Duff and Peter Allen. T.I. and his Grand Hustle Entertainment partner Jason Geter have joined Will Packer as producers.
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