Nicki Minaj is attached to executive produce and star in Lady Danger, a new Amazon Freevee animated series based on the Dark Horse Comics title of the same name by Alex de Campi, Mulele Jarvis and Marissa Louise.
According to Deadline, Minaj is developing Lady Danger alongside fellow rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, who is also executive producing through his G-Unit Film & TV banner. Additional executive producers include Carlton Jordan, Crystle Roberson and Brian Sher, as well as Paul Young and Mike Griffin of Make Good Content. Lady Danger will be animated by Starburns Industries, the studio co-founded by actor and producer Dino Stamatopoulos, who famously portrayed Alex "Star-Burns" Osbourne on the cult-favorite NBC sitcom Community.
Freevee's Lady Danger is written by the aforementioned Jordan and Roberson. The afrofuturistic animated series takes place over 50 years from now -- in the year 2075, to be exact. It follows a government field agent who is left for dead by her team after discovering a dangerous secret. She is then resurrected as Lady Danger, an agent of B.O.O.T.I. (Bureau of Organized Terrorism Intervention), and is tasked with saving the world.
The Origins of Lady Danger
Written by De Campi, illustrated by Jarvis and colored by Louise, Lady Danger was originally published in 2015 as a two-part story in issues #5 and #6 of the Dark Horse anthology series Grindhouse: Drive In, Bleed Out. Both issues of the blaxploitation comic were later collected in the trade paperback Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Double Feature Volume 4, which also collects both issues of the "star-bound sex romp" Nebulina by John Lucas and Ryan Hill.
"When the US has trouble overseas, it sends the Bureau of Organized Terrorism Intervention's top agent: Lady Danger," Dark Horse's official synopsis for the first Lady Danger issue reads. "But when the Bulletproof Bae falls afoul of a Thai drug lord with ties to the CIA, of course the established US security agencies will help the upstart, mostly black BOOTI defend itself, right? Right?!"
Meanwhile, the synopsis for the second and final issue reads, "On orders from the Bureau of Organized Terrorism Intervention (B.O.O.T.I.), superfly superspy Lady Danger came to make trouble in a CIA-backed Chinese general turned drug lord's neighborhood. Now it's his turn to make trouble in hers—with lots of guns and ninjas! And bimbos, also!"
Source: Deadline