The life of transgender mobster Dante 'Tex' Gill will be adapted for TV, two years after Johansson dropped out of the project amid backlash to her casting.
“I couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to write a gangster drama based on such a fascinating and diverse web of queer characters,” Our Lady J, who is transgender,in a statement. “The show is about the promise of reinvention, and the peril of losing oneself in the process.”
She added: “Tex Gill was out and proud in an era – the late 1970s – when living authentically came with the price of social ostracization, leaving him vulnerable to a life of crime and lawlessness. Having grown up in Pennsylvania myself, I’m also excited to delve deep into Pittsburgh’s underbelly as it unspools the story of Tex’s remarkable life – it’s also the story of a city’s struggle for rebirth and a proud community’s efforts to make its voice heard.
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