Pras Michél Teams Up With Mark Wahlberg for Documentary on Fugees Founder’s Life & Trial

Pras Michél has linked with Mark Wahlberg for a documentary focused connected the Fugees founder’s beingness and ongoing spy trial.

As Michél faces 22 years down bars pursuing a 2023 condemnation connected 10 charges including conspiracy, Wahlberg has struck a woody with the musician-turned-politician to marque a diagnostic documentary connected some the sprawling transgression lawsuit and his emergence successful the Fugees.

“Everyone is fascinated by each the twists and turns, similar it’s immoderate benignant of thriller,” Michél tells Variety, who broke the story. “But for me, this is conscionable my beingness — the real, messy, analyzable information of what I’ve been surviving through.”

The movie volition beryllium produced nether Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas banner and volition analyse Michél’s philharmonic bequest arsenic good arsenic the idiosyncratic interaction of navigating a high-profile ineligible proceeding that resulted successful a assemblage uncovering him blameworthy connected 10 counts, including conspiracy, witnesser tampering and failing to registry arsenic an unregistered overseas cause of China.

“I’m rooting for Pras and excited to archer his story,” Wahlberg told Variety. He’ll beryllium creating the documentary alongside Unrealistic Ideas president Archie Gips, who called the story, “a astonishing premix of popular civilization and geopolitical intrigue that feels similar a spy thriller travel to life.”

Michél was archetypal charged successful the lawsuit successful 2019 aft helium was accused of funneling wealth from fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low done straw donors to Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. He was besides accused of trying to assistance scuttle a Justice Department probe into an extradition lawsuit connected behalf of China during Trump’s archetypal term.