The story of one of the greatest rap groups is coming to television.
Huluhas given a straight-to-series order to
Wu-Tang: An American Saga, a 10-episode drama from Wu-Tang Clan front man
The RZA, writer
Alex Tse(
Superfly) and Imagine Television.
Created and written by The RZA and Tse, the series is based on the Wu-Tang Clan, one of the most influential groups in hip-hop history, and will explore and expand the band’s world.
Set in early ’90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the show tracks the Clan’s formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.