Craig Brewer To Direct ‘The Gangster Princess Of Beverly Hills’
By Angie Han/March 1, 2013 9:30 am EST
In 2010, Lee was arrested for trying to smuggle 500 pounds of marijuana into Ohio. It soon emerged that the spoiled LA princess was neither a Samsung scion nor a K-pop star, but in fact an experienced drug runner who’d moved 7,000 pounds of pot from California to Ohio over the course of eight months. In the end, she was sentenced to six years in prison.
Brewer will write the adaptation himself based on Sabina Rubin Erdely’s article. (The incredible tale can be read in full here, and it’s well worth checking out when you get a moment.) I love a good story about the twisted side of the so-called American Dream, and Brewer’s affinity for gritty material seems to make him a good fit. Erwin Stoff (The Matrix) will produce.
