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Cheo Hodari Coker is making himself quite a morbid niche: writing biopics about slain rap stars.
The “Notorious” screenwriter is attached to adapt Bill Adler’s “Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC—The Authorized Biography” for DJ Classicz, the urban arm of Davis Entertainment. DJ Classicz president Dallas Jackson optioned the book recently and will produce with production partner John Davis.
“It’s an extraordinary rags-to-riches journey that I’m eager to bring to the screen,” Jackson said. “And I’m hoping to have Run, DMC and Russell Simmons’ involvement. This will be a big movie about the 1980s hip-hop movement that took over the world.”
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