As first reported by Variety, HBO is continuing its partnership with Dwayne Johnson. The WWE legend and former Ballers star is set to executive produce a show about backyard wrestling. Along with Johnson, Insecure creator and star, Issa Rae is also executive producing.
The upcoming series titled, Tre Cnt (or Tre Count) centers on Cassius Jones, a dock worker and struggling pro wrestler who lives in Houston’s Third Ward, also known as The Tre. It will follow Cassius’ working-class family, neighbors and friends who come together — pooling their talents, resources, savvy and dreams — to build a unique hip-hop-centric backyard-wrestling empire from nothing, with Cassius using inherited life insurance money and the deed to a shotgun house from his grandfather to start his American dream.
Tre Cnt joins a roster of upcoming projects and in-the-works efforts at HBO that includes Adam McKay and Max Borenstein’s 1980s L.A. Lakers drama; a limited series about Jeffrey Epstein, also from McKay; an adaptation of Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, which will be executive produced by Amy Adams; Joss Whedon’s Victorian superhero show The Nevers; J.J. Abrams’ Demimonde; and Kate Winslet’s Mare of Easttown, among others.
