(Business Insider) – HBO is putting together quite the programming sucker punch with “Da Brick.”  The boxing drama, about a juvie grad turned ring sensation, will be a collaboration between Mike Tyson, Spike Lee and Doug Ellin, who created “Entourage.”  And after an exhaustive search, the producers have settled on their lead: John Boyega, the British star of “Attack the Block,” a low-budg monster movie that lit up SXSW this year.

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(Rolling Out) — Spike Lee, Mike Tyson and the creator of HBO’s “Entourage,” Doug Ellin, are teaming up to executive produce a new drama series for HBO, loosely inspired by Tyson’s youth.  According to Deadline, the show, titled “Da Brick,” will be written by John Ridley and is being described as a “contemporary exploration of what it means to be a young, black man in supposedly post-racial America.” “Da Brick” will be set in current day Newark, which is also nicknamed “Brick City.”  The idea for the show came from a meeting between Tyson and Ellin on the set of “Entourage,” which was inspired by veteran actor Mark Wahlberg’s early years in Hollywood.

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