AMC has put in development Gang Leader For a Day, a drama series from Hand Of God creator Ben Watkins, Ed Burns and Radar.
Written by Watkins based on Sudhir Venkatesh’s best-selling book, with Burns set to executive produce and act in a supporting role, Gang Leader For a Day centers on a wide-eyed, ambitious young grad student Sudhir who enters the nation’s largest public housing project to conduct a survey on what it means to be “black and poor in America.” He’s taken captive by the notorious Gangster Disciples whose leader JT issues a challenge: if Sudhir really wants to find out about life in the projects, he needs to experience it first-hand. What follows is a seven-year odyssey through an intersection at the heart of urban American life in 1990s Chicago. Gang Leader For a Day is a tale of two worlds, colliding in one city, and the unlikely brotherhood forged by two strangers at the center of it all.
Written by Watkins based on Sudhir Venkatesh’s best-selling book, with Burns set to executive produce and act in a supporting role, Gang Leader For a Day centers on a wide-eyed, ambitious young grad student Sudhir who enters the nation’s largest public housing project to conduct a survey on what it means to be “black and poor in America.” He’s taken captive by the notorious Gangster Disciples whose leader JT issues a challenge: if Sudhir really wants to find out about life in the projects, he needs to experience it first-hand. What follows is a seven-year odyssey through an intersection at the heart of urban American life in 1990s Chicago. Gang Leader For a Day is a tale of two worlds, colliding in one city, and the unlikely brotherhood forged by two strangers at the center of it all.
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