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If this isn’t a great bit of casting, nothing is. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that an upcoming biopic about the life and death of Russell Jones, better known as the Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard, will star The Wire and Boardwalk Empire Star Michael K. Williams.

Williams, who played Omar Little, Baltimore’s noblest vigilante for all five seasons of the Charm City saga and currently plays Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, will portray the final two years of ODB’s life in the upcoming film, titled Dirty White Boy.

Reports EW:

The film focuses on the offbeat friendship between the Wu-Tang Clan co-founder and Jarred Weisfeld, a 22-year-old VH1 production assistant who through a lot of hustle (and the occasional lie) talked his way into becoming the rapper’s manager when Jones was serving a three-year stint in prison in the early 2000s.

Despite Weisfeld’s inexperience, and having a client whose talent was undermined by addiction and mental illness, the novice manager engineered an unlikely comeback — only to have it cut short by the star’s fatal drug overdose in 2004 at age 35.

Dirty White Boy is being produced by Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy, whose Beginners won Christopher Plummer an Academy Award last month. The screenplay is by Brent Hoff, who worked at VH1 and met Weisfeld and ODB when they were working on a reality show there.

Wu-Tang? Omar? Solid producing team? We approve.