According to the Hollywood Reporter, MGM has picked up Nick Guthe's spec script "Don Cornelius," to be produced by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tierre Turner. through their Feel Good Films along with Tollin/Robbins Prods.
The project reunites Gooding with Tollin/Robbins partners Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin as the trio is in preproduction on Revolution Studios' "Radio," which Gooding will star in with Tollin directing and producing with Robbins.
"Cornelius," a potential starring vehicle for Gooding, centers on a repressed suburban accountant who finds out that his biological father is the head of the New York Mafia. When an attempt is made on the father's life, Cornelius ends up taking over the position.