EXCLUSIVE: BET Media Group is creating the unscripted collection The Twins from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit Movie & Tv and Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media Group.
The collection facilities across the Flores brothers, Margarito and Pedro, an identical twins who grew to become multi-millionaire, cocaine kingpins by the age of 18 and who would finally help within the seize and take-down of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
The Twins will function a companion to the award-winning podcast Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Introduced Down A Drug Lord, which was produced by Lionsgate Sound and G-Unit Audio, and just lately launched a second season.
Following their arrest, Margarito and Pedro Flores turned their backs on their profitable drug operation and cooperated with the DEA in alternate for extra lenient sentences. Each served 14 years in jail earlier than being launched in 2022 to the witness safety program. Margarito Flores continues to stroll on the fitting facet of the legislation. Earlier this 12 months, he led the seminar, “From Kingpin to Educator,” a one-day occasion for legislation enforcement held in Kane County, Illinois, the place he shared insider data on methods to catch different traffickers. Updates on Pedro Flores are unavailable. El Chapo is serving a life sentence with out the opportunity of parole in a Colorado supermax jail.
The Twins is the most recent venture from G-Unit Movie & Tv and follows Deadline’s unique announcement of Jackson’s collaboration with Chris Albrecht and Jorge Granier of Rubicon International Media on the brand new bilingual crime drama collection Prey Earlier than You Eat (w/t). Earlier this 12 months, we revealed a number of different tasks had been within the works together with the unscripted tattoo transformation collection Redemption Ink with Hulu, the animated collection Woman Hazard in collaboration with Nicki Minaj for Amazon’s Freevee and Vice Metropolis (w/t) with Lionsgate Tv and Paramount Tv Studios.
Closing up a 12 months that started with the signing of G-Unit Movie & Tv’s non-exclusive broadcast take care of Fox, all his present Starz choices—Energy franchise collection Ghost, Elevating Kanan and Drive; in addition to BMF— proceed to be ranking juggernauts for the community and beloved by followers. Jackson is repped by IAG and lawyer Stephen Savva.
Pilgrim Media Group, a Lionsgate firm headed by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer Craig Piligian, focuses on unscripted tv. With 21 collection throughout a dozen networks, Pilgrim Media Group has expanded a number of reveals into profitable franchises together with Depraved Tuna with 4 spin-offs, Ghost Hunters with 5 and Avenue Outlaws with 16. Pilgrim Media Group can also be a minority proprietor within the studio’s award-winning podcast division Lionsgate Sound, which produced Scamanda – the highest new podcast of 2023 and the most-shared present on Apple Podcasts.
