HUSHPUPPI, Nigeria’s internet celebrity gone sour, is providing an avenue for some megabucks to movie producers who are capitalising on his travails to make hay.
EbonyLife TV boss and media mogul, Mo Abudu, is already working on a project that will see her co-producing the Hushpuppi movie with Will Packer productions, after winning the rights to Bloomberg’s article.
The Bloomberg’s article titled ‘The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master’ is based on incarcerated Nigerian fraud suspect, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi. Mo Abudu confirmed the project herself through her Instagram post on Thursday, August 5, 2021.
“When the Hushpuppi story made headlines last year, I pitched the story idea to @willpowerpacker and James Lopez. They bought the idea and as headlined in this press release, together we won the rights 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 reportedly an action thriller 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’.
It will be describing the written article by Evan Ratliff on how Hushpuppi was nabbed by the American government for laundering millions of dollars.
Hushpuppi was arrested in the United Arab Emirates and extradited to the United States in 2020.
