*HBO’s drama pilot “Da Brick” has hit a brick wall.
The pay cable network just passed on the project, executive produced by Spike Lee, John Ridley, Doug Ellin and Mike Tyson, according to Deadline.com.
Written by Ridley and directed by Lee, “Da Brick” was inspired in part by Tyson’s youth and explored what it means to be a young, black man in supposedly post-racial America.
The central character of troubled aspiring young boxer Donnie was played by newcomer John Boyega. Ellin, Ridley, Lee, Tyson and Jim Lefkowitz executive produced.
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Try another “pay cable network,” like OWN, for example.
OWN is NOT a pay cable network- they rely on advertisers for revenues. Pay cable networks rely on subscriptions and do not sell to advertisers. Also, assuming this is based on Mike Tyson we can safely assume they tailored it to HBO so they could take liberties with nudity, adult language, etc. Lastly, they ALL have past relationships with HBO- Spike Lee has done several documentaries for HBO, Doug Ellin produced “Entourage”, and Mike Tyson’s fights used to appear on HBO before Don King went all Showtime on them. I think it will be an interesting show and I have a feeling it will end up on Starz or Showtime, or HBO may even take a second look if they tweak the project.
They should try STARZ. I heard about this awhile back and was actually looking forward to seeing it.