Whitey Bulger’s infamy lives on.
Comcast’s new production wing, Sky Studios, is working on a TV series about James “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious Boston mobster — and apparent Trump fan — who became an FBI informant and inspired countless crime films, including 2006’s “The Departed” to 2015’s “Black Mass.”
The epic will focus on Bulger’s 16 years on the lam, drawing upon investigative reporting and exclusive interviews from the upcoming book “Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss” by Casey Sherman and Dave Wage, due out in May 2020, according to Variety.
According to Sherman and Wedge, the project “will reveal how the aging gangster and his girlfriend avoided capture, spotlight the agents who brought them down, showcase the sensational trial back in Boston, and disclose the bizarre series of events that led to Whitey Bulger’s murder.”
Sky is working on the series with Double Nickel Entertainment — which also produced the 2008 Clint Eastwood drama “Gran Torino” — along with Sherman and Wedge’s Fort Point Media.
Bulger was bludgeoned to death with a padlocked-stuff sock in a West Virginia prison in October 2018. He was serving two life sentences on racketeering and other charges.
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