According to The Hollywood Reporter, a movie based on the life of rapper Gucci Mane is currently in development by Paramount Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. The latter one already has experience in music-related movies and TV shows, producing Eminem’s 8 Mile and musical drama Empire.
The biopic will be based on New York Times bestseller The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, with Brian Grazer, Erica Huggins, Todd Moskowitz and the 37-year-old rapper himself serving as producers of the movie.
There is no doubt that Mane’s life story is really worthy of a biopic. He grew up in Atlanta, where he started selling drugs while still in the eighth grade of elementary school and continued to do so through college. His music career started in 2001 after he was first arrested for drug possession. He was writing poetry since the age of 14, so he figured he could try himself as a rapper.
After being featured on various mixtapes, he decided to independently release his first album titled Trap House in 2005. After his first album achieved moderate success, he continued releasing new music regularly and helped to put trap rap on the music map.
In 2014, he pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and ended up serving almost three years in prison. During that time, he worked on new music, releasing a dozen of mixtapes with the help of his girlfriend and also managed to collaborate with rappers like Migos and Young Thug. After his releases from prison in 2016, Gucci Mane found even bigger success, reaching his first number one spot on US Billboard Hot 100 thanks to the collaboration with Rae Sremmurd, “Black Beatles.” Most recently, he released a new album titled Mr. Davis in October 2017. It gained positive reviews from the critics and debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200.
