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Issa Rae, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and Dany Garcia will co-executive produce a new HBO series about the development of a backyard wrestling competition, according to Variety. The project, written by Mohamad El Masri (October Faction, Here and Now) has the working title TRE CNT.
The half-hour series will seemingly reflect a more ramshackle approach to wrestling than the one Johnson worked through in his WWE years. "The series focuses on Cassius Jones," Variety reports, "a young dock worker and struggling pro-wrestler, who uses inherited life-insurance money for start-up cash and the deed to a shotgun house from his grandfather to start a hip-hop centric backyard wrestling empire in Houston’s Third Ward (The Tre) with the help of his working-class family, neighbors, and friends."