{"id":48732,"date":"2012-03-23T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T11:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=48732"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T11:11:26","slug":"omar-from-the-wire-to-play-ol-dirty-bastard-in-new-movie-dirty-white-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/omar-from-the-wire-to-play-ol-dirty-bastard-in-new-movie-dirty-white-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar from &#8216;The Wire&#8217; to play Ol&#8217; Dirty Bastard in new movie &#8216;Dirty White Boy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"48733\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/omar-from-the-wire-to-play-ol-dirty-bastard-in-new-movie-dirty-white-boy\/omar-odb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/omar-odb.jpg?fit=500%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,346\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"omar odb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/omar-odb.jpg?fit=500%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/omar-odb.jpg?fit=500%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48733\" title=\"omar odb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/omar-odb.jpg?resize=500%2C346&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The late, great Ol&#8217; Dirty Bastard is getting immortalized on the silver screen. <a href=\"http:\/\/insidemovies.ew.com\/2012\/03\/22\/ol-dirty-bastard-movie-casting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> reports that the Joaqu\u00edn Baca-Asay-directed film will be called <em>Dirty White Boy<\/em>, and will star Michael K. Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/UmtuRRhtGQw\" target=\"_blank\">who played Omar in\u00a0<em>The Wire<\/em><\/a>. (Baca-Asay was the cinematographer for the video for Jay-Z&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Tx1DGH3CPnA\" target=\"_blank\">99 Problems<\/a><\/em>.)<br \/>\nThe film focuses on the relationship between Ol&#8217; Dirty Bastard and his manager, Jarred Weisfeld, during the last years of ODB&#8217;s life. No word yet on when the film will go into production. According to Entertainment Weekly, both Weisfeld and ODB&#8217;s mother, Cherry Jones, approve of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late, great Ol&#8217; Dirty Bastard is getting immortalized on the silver screen. Entertainment Weekly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-cG0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}