Forest Whitaker set to produce series on Showtime
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Timing, as they say, is everything.
Forest Whitaker is developing a series for Showtime called Mr. Untouchable, which purports to tell the story of “flashy Harlem heroin dealer Leroy ‘Nicky’ Barnes,” Variety reported today.
What does that have to do with timing?
Well, Cuba Gooding Jr. is playing Barnes in the newly released Ridley Scott/Denzel Washington pic American Gangster. They’re not officially connected, but it’s sure to give more attention to the Showtime series.
The series, Variety reports, “will tell the story of how Barnes built a drug empire in the 1970s that rivaled that of the Italian Mafia. It will show how he rose to great heights, but with his success coming at the expense of his Harlem community.”
The show also will touch on the U.S. government’s much bally-hooed War on Drugs and how it failed to take down Barnes.
April 2007 Associated Press photo by Damian Dovarganes.
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