Nick Cannon Set To Play Former Drug Kingpin Freeway Ricky Ross In Upcoming Biopic [Video]

 

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Freeway Ricky Ross has finally settled on an actor to portray him in an upcoming biopic. Nick Cannon is set to play the role of the man who presided over a multi-million dollar cocaine empire in the early 1980's out of Los Angeles.

 

"I've been wanting him to to play my role since '96," Rick says as he stands next to Nick in a new video announcement. "We got hooked up. I met him, I love his personality."

 

 

"We're family now," Nick said. "We're going to get this thing right. However long it takes, the story gotta be told. The real Rick Ross."

 

"It's time to tell the Story of Cocaine, Contras and America. This is the story of the real Scarface!" Freeway Rick posted on his Facebook page.

 

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Famed actor/director/screenwriter Nick Cassavetes ("Blow" and "Alpha Dog") has been tapped to pen the script.
 
 


 
 
 
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Comment by Detroit07 on March 5, 2013 at 2:45pm
Common would of been a better choice he got the beard goin already
Comment by Steven on March 5, 2013 at 7:04am
good luck
Comment by greebuh on March 4, 2013 at 11:23pm
This is the worst person to play Freeway Ricky Ross. I don't see this playing out to well for the movie.
Comment by SoundBOI on March 4, 2013 at 9:13pm
Don Cheadle......yeah.
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Comment by dee on March 4, 2013 at 9:13pm
Its this a joke.I like nick cannon but a drug dealer role is not 4 him.movie gonna be looked at as a joke.
Comment by kluemination on March 4, 2013 at 7:11pm
Wow really? Thats a s***** movie I'm not going to see.
Comment by DJ Slowpoke on March 4, 2013 at 7:05pm
Thats whassup Nick Cannon is gettin some shine, i think as a comedian hes corny and his music is corny, and hes a big ol simp for gettin that mariah tattoo on his back but hes an actor or whatever and thats what actors do
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Comment by HoE KillA 253 on March 4, 2013 at 6:52pm
damn Don Cheadle would've been good
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