Dwayne Johnson,
Issa Rae, and
Dany Garcia are set to executive produce a half-hour series in development at
HBO about the creation of a backyard wrestling promotion,
Variety has learned exclusively.
The project is currently titled “TRE CNT” (a.k.a “TRE COUNT”) and hails from writer Mohamad El Masri. The series focuses on Cassius Jones, a young dock worker and struggling pro-wrestler, who uses inherited life-insurance money for start-up cash and the deed to a shotgun house from his grandfather to start a hip-hop centric backyard wrestling empire in Houston’s Third Ward (The Tre) with the help of his working-class family, neighbors, and friends.
variety.com
