Disgraced former Empire star and hate crime hoaxer is looking to relaunch his tattered Hollywood career with a directorial debut on the BET network.
According …
Disgraced former Empire star and hate crime hoaxer is looking to relaunch his tattered Hollywood career with a directorial debut on the BET network. According to Variety, Smollett is trading in his court witness chair for a director’s chair as BET+ has picked up B-Boy Blues, the first film he has directed. The film is set to debut on the streaming service on June 9 as Pride Month kicks off. B-Boy Blues is an adaptation of James Earl Hardy’s novel of the same name and stars Timothy Richardson, Thomas Mackey, Ledisi, Brandee Eans, Heather B, and Marquise Vilson. Smollett also wrote the script with Hardy’s assistance. Watch below:
The film debuted at last year’s American Black Film Festival where it won the Narrative Feature Fan Favorite Award but had not found a distributor until BET stepped up.
