Actor/director Bill Duke (last seen on screen in X-Men: The Last Stand) has snapped up the rights to Relentless Aaron’s “street lit” self-published tome Push.
Aaron - real name DeWitt Gilmore – is a former prisoner who got his writing start behind bars in New Jersey and, by the time he was released in 2003, had written more than 30 manuscripts. He self-published his work in small bookstores and on prison buses and became the figurehead for the “street lit” movement.
Duke will develop Push, which features the writer’s main character, an inner-city vigilante, into a film he’ll direct and also aims to make a franchise out of it.