The story of how Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff went from Philadelphia youngsters to one in all hip-hop’s first mainstream crossover acts is being developed right into a TV present.
On Tuesday (Oct. 6), Deadline revealed Will’s manufacturing firm, Westbrook Studios, is growing a scripted sequence titled 215, which will likely be impressed by Smith’s youth and teenage years in Philadelphia’s Wynnefield neighborhood. The sequence will comply with a younger rapper and DJ as they arrive up via town’s late Nineteen Eighties and early Nineties hip-hop scene, pursue a document deal and navigate how fame impacts their friendships and relationships with their hometown.
Will and Jeff first met at a home celebration in West Philadelphia in 1985. The 2 shortly started making music collectively and finally fashioned DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Contemporary Prince. Their 1988 album He is the DJ, I am the Rapper turned a serious business success, serving to set up the duo as one in all hip-hop’s earliest mainstream breakouts. And naturally, Will would later turn into one in all Hollywood’s greatest stars.
“215 is very significant to us as a result of it attracts from the rise of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Contemporary Prince and celebrates Philadelphia throughout such a defining period within the metropolis’s late-’80s/early-’90s hip-hop scene,” Terence Carter, president of tv at Westbrook Studios, mentioned in an announcement.
The sequence remains to be in improvement and doesn’t but have a community or streaming dwelling, solid or launch date. Westbrook Studios is growing the undertaking in partnership with Canadian manufacturing firm The Malar Group, which plans to provide a number of tasks with the studio.
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