Paramount Players and Imagine Entertainment have started development of a biopic on rapper Gucci Mane’s memoir entitled The Autobiography of Gucci Mane.
According to Variety, the studio had obtained the life rights to Mane and film rights for the book. Mane – real name Radric Delantic Davis – is also set to be a producer on the movie, alongside Erica Higgins and Brian Grazer, whose previously worked on 8 Mile and A Beautiful Mind.
The book chronicles his life from a childhood of poverty in Alabama and his move to Atlanta, where he became involved in crime.
The 37-year-old spent nearly three years… Read the full story