Quibi has released the official trailer for executive producer Mark Wahlberg’s documentary series titled Run This City, featuring a 23 year-old elected mayor, who was arrested for fraud and extortion charges. The docuseries is scheduled to makes it debut on April 6. Check out the video in the player below!
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Run This City follows Jasiel Correia II — former mayor of Fall River, Mass., and the town’s youngest ever elected in 2015 — who faced various fraud and extortion charges over the course of his second term. When the FBI indicts him, Correia vows to fight the charges and clear his name.
The documentary series is directed by award-winning filmmaker Brent Hodge (I Am Chris Farley). It is executive produced by Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, The Fighter), Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, Javier Quintana and Hodge. It is also a production by UnReaListic Ideas.
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Quibi, which is short for “Quick Bites” is scheduled to have its launch on April 6, 2020, with already more than a billion dollars raised from its investors. It has a number of projects currently in development. Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi, Catherine Hardwick, Steven Spielberg, Paul Feig, Anna Kendrick, Laurence Fishburne, and Don Cheadle are eight of the many producers and talents who are working hard on the production of the said projects
The streaming service, founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is set to feature series that run two to four hours in length and are broken down into parts that are no longer than 10 minutes in length.