Omar to Play ODB

Michael K. Williams, who played Omar on The Wire, has been cast to play the part of ODB, from the Wu Tang Clan, in the movie about the later years of ODB’s life. Here’s the description of the film from Entertainment Weekly:

Titled Dirty White Boy, the film focuses on the offbeat friendship between the Wu-Tang Clan co-founder and Jarred Weisfeld, a 22-year-old VH1 production assistant who through a lot of hustle (and the occasional lie) talked his way into becoming the rapper’s manager when Jones was serving a three-year stint in prison in the early 2000s.

They need a bio pic about the early days instead of this downer.

Read more at ew.com.