Vivica Fox to Direct BET+ Film “The First Lady Of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story”

Vivica Fox is stepping behind the digital camera for BET as soon as once more. The “Kill Bill” actress directed the 2021 brief “Through Her Eyes” for BET Her and can comply with it up by helming BET+’s “The First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story.” Deadline confirmed that the movie has been greenlit.

Written by Gabrielle Collins (“Merry Switchmas”), the pic is “inspired by the true life of Detroit native Tonesa Welch, which was first chronicled in American Gangster: Trap Queens, also from the streamer,” per the supply. “The biopic charts Welch’s rise from teen mom to drug dealer to being labeled by federal prosecutors as ‘The First Lady of BMF.’ Dreams and desires, craftiness and creativity, hustle and hard work, Welch tells a harrowing story about riches, remorse, personal responsibility, and redemption set amidst the lavishness and extreme violence of Detroit’s crack era and America’s ‘war on drugs.’”

“The First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story” is about to debut on BET+ later this 12 months.

Fox’s on-screen credit embrace “Independence Day,” “Booty Call,” and “Empire.”