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Jimmy Hoffa Docuseries in the Works at Village Roadshow Unscripted Television
A multi-part docuseres about Jimmy Hoffa is in development at Village Roadshow Unscripted Television, Variety has learned.
“What caught our attention about Jimmy Hoffa’s story is that it is a compelling topic of interest and point of intrigue still for many,” said Shannon Perry, Village Roadshow Television’s executive vice president of reality & production services. It has all the elements of a captivating drama with power struggle, corruption, and a high-profile disappearance that also aligns with the kinds of impactful stories about notable, cultural figures that we want to tell.” “For so many years the world has focused on my father’s tragic demise, when the real story – how a boy living in depression era Indiana coal country with a widowed mother rose up in Detroit to become the president of, without argument, the most powerful union in America – has never really been told,” said James P. Hoffa, lawyer and the longest serving democratically elected General President of IBT.
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