Notorious writer takes on Run DMC next

Cheo Hodari Coker, who wrote this year's biopic NOTORIOUS, based on the life and death of rapper The Notorious BIG, is to pen an adaption of Bill Adler's "Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC --

The Authorized Biography."Adler, the group's former publicist, will executive produce, so says The Hollywood Reporter.The trade says that DJ Classicz president Dallas Jackson optioned the book recently and will produce with partner John Davis."It's an extraordinary rags-to-riches journey that I'm eager to bring to the screen," Jackson said. "And I'm hoping to have Run, DMC and Russell Simmons' involvement. This will be a big movie about the 1980s hip-hop movement that took over the world."