“When the Hushpuppi story made headlines last year, I pitched the story idea”- Mo Abudu
Written by Max1023fm on August 6, 2021
‘The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master’ is based on imprisoned Nigerian fraudster Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi.
Mo Abudu, Ebonylife boss, revealed confirming the new partnership in an Instagram post that she pitched the story idea to Will Packer production in 2020.
“When the Hushpuppi story made headlines last year, I pitched the story idea to @willpower and James lopez. They brought the idea and as headline in the press release, together we won the right to the Bloomberg article by Evan Ratliff mentioned above. The rights were won after a highly contested derby by several producers and is now set up at Universal Pictures,” she wrote.
The untitled project is set to be an action thriller detailing the Evan Ratliff written article on how Hushpuppi was caught by the American government for laundering millions of dollars. It will be produced by James Lopez for will packer and Abudu for Ebonylife.
The thriller is said to be a hybrid of Steven Spielberg’s 2002 pseudo biographical crime film ‘Catch Me if You Can’ and Bryan Singer’s 1995 neo-noir mystery thriller film ‘The Usual Suspects’.
