Old Dirty Bastard was één van de founding members van de legendarische rap formatie Wu Tang Clan, en had een uniek stem geluid waar mee hij zich boven alle 'standaard' rappers plaatste. Helaas is hij op 13 november 2004 overleden, en kwam er een einde aan een turbulent leven van de 35 jarige artiest. Maar er zijn nu plannen om een film over zijn leven te maken en daar in zal de Amerikaanse acteur Michael K. Williams ODB spelen, deze acteur kennen we uiteraard allemaal van zijn rol als Omar uit de TV serie The Wire, dus met zijn street credits zit het meer dan goed.

EW has learned exclusively that Michael K. Williams, 45, will star in an upcoming film about the legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper and all-around troubled soul Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, whose impressive mic skills and outrageous showmanship were eclipsed by his erratic offstage behavior, assorted arrests, and an early death.
Joaquín Baca-Asay, the cinematographer on We Own the Night, Roger Dodger and Jay-Z's video for 99 Problems, is also joining the project, making his feature directorial debut.
The movie is based on the final years of ODB's life - a true story that is nonetheless stranger than fiction.

Titled Dirty White Boy, 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