In response to TV One’s recent announcement of unauthorized Xscape biopic, Mona Scott-Young will be executive producing a new and “official” Xscape biopic.
Keeping in the same fashion BET has done with The New Edition Story, Scott-Young through her Monami Entertainment imprint, she will be working with all four original members of Xscape, Kandi Burruss-Tucker, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, and sisters LaTocha and Tamika Scott.
While Scott-Young and Xscape are currently shopping the biopic to various networks, they are also looking to create a companion documentary that would give fans an inside look in their reunion for the forthcoming 25th anniversary of their classic debut, Hummin Comin’ At Cha.
In a statement, Xscape announced the upcoming biopic with Mona Scott-Young and denounced TV One’s unauthorized version, calling it “disrespectful.”
“We are excited to join forces with Mona Scott-Young and Monami Entertainment to bring the real Xscape story to the world,” said Xscape in a statement. “This partnership will allow us to tell our story about our lives the way we lived it. It’s our truth about the rise, the fall, and the return of Xscape. We feel the recent announcement of an unauthorized biopic on our lives is disrespectful and disappointing. We are not, in any way, participating in that project and it will never ‘represent’ our true story.”
The Love & Hip-Hop creator added, “Xscape has had a huge impact on music and are one of the most successful female groups of all time. Monami Entertainment is honored to be charged with bringing the authorized Xscape story to the world.”
TV One’s version, titled Who Can I Run To: The Xscape Story has yet to set a premiere date, but according to The Jasmine Brand, it is slated to come out between this year and 2018. The film is being produced by So So Def founder, Jermaine Dupri, who developed the group during their time in the early 90s.
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