Queen Latifah and Flavor Unit Entertainment will produce a biopic from Will Smith based on the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning star's life and career.

Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertainment will produce a slate of hip-hop biopics alongside Will Smith and Jesse Collins' production companies

Sept. 19, Queen Latifah, film producer Shakim Compere and Will Smith announced that their production companies will collaborate on a slate of forthcoming hip-hop biopics, beginning with a movie centered around Latifah's life and career.

A line of biopics about iconic hip hop artists is set to be produced, with the first being a Queen Latifah biopic. Will Smith will serve as one of the producers. Flavor Unit Entertainment, Westbrook Studios,

Three film and television studios that center Black stories are coming together to produce a slate of hip-hop biopics — and they’ve announced that Queen Latifah ’s will be first. Neither a writer nor director has been announced yet,

Queen Latifah is partnering with Will Smith's Westbrook Studios and Jesse Collins Entertainment to produce a biopic about her life.

A feature film about the life of Queen Latifah is in the works and Will Smith is producing it. The movie will be the first in a slate of independently financed hip-hop biopics hailing from Flavor Unit Entertainment,