The film is an adaptation of The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, written by the rapper and author Neil Martinez-Belkin.
Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins from Imagine Entertainment are teaming up with Paramount Pictures to produce the new project.
Imagine Entertainment has retained the life rights to Mane, as well as the movie rights to the book, with the adaptation to be made via Paramount Players, a film studio division of Paramount Pictures.
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that rapper Gucci Mane, also known as Radric Delantic Davis, will be the center of a new biopic.