Screen Daily first reported the news. UTA and WME Global are co-repping US rights. Good Universe is repping international sales.
Christian Contreras wrote the screenplay adapting LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal.
Poole was a decorated detective who spent months investigating the murder of B.I.G., real name Christopher Wallace, eventually coming to believe that a group of “gangta cops in his own force were not only involved but were also tied to Death Row Records and the Bloods street gang." The result was confrontations with the LAPD police chief and culminated with Poole going into early retirement in protest.
Although his turn in Black Mass netted some of his strongest reviews in years, Depp has endured a difficult summer inside and outside the theater, with his ongoing and very public divorce to Amber Heard and starring in one of the summer’s biggest bombs, Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Sources tell THR that Depp is attached to the project, which is aiming to shoot later this year. Another source, however, told THR Depp's deal is only in the early stages.
This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.
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