With an inevitable and impending one-year jail sentence on weapons charges coming next spring, trapmusik rapper T.I. is waisting no time lining projects and investing in his future before he goes to the pokey. He’s already agreed to star in a MTV reality show about the community service leading up to his prison term and now he’s just signed on to a three picture deal with Screen Gems, the first of which will be the crime drama “Deep Bone,” (no, it’s not a porno) alongside Matt Damon and “The Wire” star Idris Elba (aka the one and only Stringer Bell).
The second flick T.I. (aka Tip Harris) has lined up is “Boulevard,” a drama still in development in which he’ll play the lead and a third tbd project with no details yet. No shooting dates have been unveiled for “Deep Bone” yet, but Variety reports that filming be “scheduled around the legal complications,” which means presumably before next spring when he’s thrown in the slammer for 12 months.
‘Bone’ will center around a group of ex-bank robbers who are dragged into one last big score by a freshly paroled buddy. Sounds a little like an update on “Dead Presidents,” which at the very least had an excellent soundtrack.