Terrence Howard and the entertainment company Radical Media have teamed to develop a TV drama based on the life of Ronald Farwell, an undercover LAPD detective who infiltrated the Black Panthers.
“Pigs and Panthers” will be set in 1960s and early 1970s Los Angeles and will draw from the story of Farwell and his wife, an L.A. Sheriff’s deputy, as he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the Black Panther Party, the FBI and the LAPD itself, reports Variety.
Howard’s production company, A Huge Quality Film, is developing the project and will produce with Radical Media. Ron Hutchinson (“The Tuskegee Airmen”) is writing the pilot script.
Radical Media, the shingle also behind Sundance’s “Iconoclasts,” AMC’s “Storymakers,” the documentary “The Fog of War” and the pilot to “Mad Men,” is currently pitching the project around town.
