Alcon Entertainment, based at Warner Bros, has acquired Abdul Williams’ script Lottery Ticket, in turnaround from Rogue Pictures.

Alcon will finance and produce the urban comedy (there goes that coded, simplistic classification again) as a starring vehicle for Ice Cube and Bow Wow (Shad Moss). When did he drop the “Lil?” I’ve always known him as “Lil Bow Wow;” guess he’s not-so little anymore.

Music video veteran Erik White, who has worked with Chris Brown, OutKast and P. Diddy, will make his feature directorial debut with the project, set to shoot starting in October in Atlanta. As an aside – filmmakers, maybe you should consider getting your start shooting music videos, because there are probably more former music video directors working within the studio system than there are purists. – especially if they’re black

In Lottery Ticket, Bow Wow will play a young man who has to survive a three-day weekend in the projects without his neighbors finding out he’s got a winning lottery ticket worth $350m.

Alcon’s founders said in a statement: “This is a fresh, funny script and Erik’s take on the material is exactly what we’re looking for.”

The film will be released through Alcon’s output deal with Warner.

There’s certainly not enough here for me to go on, so I’ll wait until this thing is actually produced, instead of making assumptions.

via SCREENDAILY