NOLLYWOOD producer, Mo Abudu, in a recent statement, revealed that a movie based on the story of the ‘rise and fall’ on Hushpuppi an internet fraudster will be out soon.
She said the story of Hushpuppi has to be told from a Nigerian Perspective as they are a lot of lessons to be learnt from it.
Mo AbuduPart of the statement on her Instagram page read, "EbonyLife Studios is partnering with Will Packer Productions to develop an untitled project based on the Bloomberg article The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master by Evan Ratliff.
"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. The globetrotting action thriller project is said to be a hybrid of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN and USUAL SUSPECTS."
Mo Abudu started EbonyLife TV (ELTV) in 2006, a network airing in more than 49 countries across Africa, as well as in the UK and the Caribbean
