Hollywood has fallen for White Boy Rick. A third project is in development based on the infamous Detroit teen drug kingpin. Darren Aronofsky and Scott Franklin’s Protozoa Pictures will produce the film based on a script by Andrew Weiss.

    Wershe was a teen living in Detroit in the 1980s when he joined the ranks of the city’s drug kingpins, trafficking cocaine on the predominantly black East Side and going by the name “White Boy Rick.”

    Wershe, now in his mid-40s, worked as an undercover informant for the FBI and DEA while simultaneously rising to become one of the biggest drug dealers in the city. At the age of 17, he was arrested for selling 8 kilos of cocaine and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He is still in prison.

    There are two other White Boy Rick films in development: Universal optioned article “The Trials of White Boy Rick,” with “Oblivion” director Joseph Kosinski attached to direct, late last year, and Studio 8 acquired a spec script by Logan and Noah Miller in February.(SD-Agencies)