Vivica Fox is stepping behind the digicam for BET as soon as once more. The “Kill Invoice” actress directed the 2021 brief “By way of Her Eyes” for BET Her and can comply with it up by helming BET+’s “The First Girl of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story.” Deadline confirmed that the movie has been greenlit.
Written by Gabrielle Collins (“Merry Switchmas”), the pic is “impressed by the true lifetime of Detroit native Tonesa Welch, which was first chronicled in American Gangster: Lure Queens, additionally from the streamer,” per the supply. “The biopic charts Welch’s rise from teen mother to drug vendor to being labeled by federal prosecutors as ‘The First Girl of BMF.’ Goals and needs, craftiness and creativity, hustle and exhausting work, Welch tells a harrowing story about riches, regret, private accountability, and redemption set amidst the lavishness and excessive violence of Detroit’s crack period and America’s ‘warfare on medicine.’”
“The First Girl of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story” is ready to debut on BET+ later this yr.
Fox’s on-screen credit embody “Independence Day,” “Booty Name,” and “Empire.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood
