Monday, April 25, 2022
Comedy Based On Life Of Hasidic Rapper Nissim Black In Works At HBO Max
HBO Max is developing Motherland Bounce, a comedy based on the life of Hasidic hip-hop star Nissim Black, from writer/comedian Moshe Kasher and The Gilded Age executive producer/director Salli Richardson-Whitfield as part of her overall deal with HBO.
Created and written by Kasher with story by Black and directed by Richardson-Whitfield, Motherland Bounce is the story of Black's spiritual quest as the former gangster rapper becomes the world's first Black Chassidic Jewish hip hop star.
Kasher and Black executive produce with Richardson-Whitfield via her HBO-based Early May Productions, and Erwin More. Eric Schulman and Aaron Fogelson serve as co-producers.
Black has in recent years become one of the most recognizable faces in Israeli hip-hop, his unlikely story starting in Seattle where he was selling drugs by the age of 12 and joined a gang shortly after that. His unique path to Orthodox Judaism and Israeli hip-pop stardom came after a confrontation with a rival nearly cost him his life and set him on a spiritual quest for answers that led him to Hasidism and a move to Jerusalem. His latest singles "Mothaland Bounce", "The Hanukkah Song 2.0" and "Adored" have peaked at No. 4, No. 5 and No. 21 respectively on the Israeli charts. Black is repped by Aaron Fogelson and attorney Fred Toczek at Felker, Toczek, Suddleson, Abramson.
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