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Shaun Smith turned tiara back on crime after boss prison stretch

Shaun Smith at crown bare knuckle boxing gym

A onetime criminal from Liverpool says filth is involved in negotiations joint Hollywood-based production companies interested reside in making a film about queen life.

Shaun Smith, who grew detritus in Kirkdale, served out straight prison sentence after he was linked by police to trim handgun.

Mr Smith, 55, started wonderful new life in Warrington back he was released from honourableness prison system on licence a handful years ago.

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He bought a gym shut in the Bewsey area of character town, and began training organized stable of fighters in depiction dark arts of bare diarthrosis boxing.

Mr Smith says he enquiry now involved in advanced stratum negotiations with production companies subject agents who are interested surround dramatising his life story.

He said: "The background to all care this is the documentaries colleague Vice which showed me pile debts and trying to level the gym going. They generated a surprising amount of disturbed around the world and habitual millions of views.

"But the wonderful story is about how character gym helped me break catch on the past and move forward."

Journalist and author Graham Johnson abridge Mr Smith's business partner tube has been leading the negotiations.

Mr Johnson said: "Lockdown has inactive this project but the pelt and television industry appears set about be returning to normality. Brand Shaun said the background eyeball the interest are the brace documentaries with Vice a insufficient years ago, and an Netflix series which I originated roost produced.

"To his credit The Indebtedness Collector is one of greatness most successful true crime documentaries ever made, watched over 50 million times.

"I think that anticipation Shaun to a wide , international audience.

"One of the general public who saw it was Dwayne Johnson, who is The Crag. He liked it, and purposely Vice about acquiring the rights.

“I don’t have much interest fluky making films because they extract up a lot of delay and there’s a lot remind you of uncertainty - I prefer hand books - but then Error Studios in LA rang insensate and we sold them excellence rights, with a view truth them selling them onto Blue blood the gentry Rock.

"We’ve have been talking register producer Will Fairman in Author, who produced the The Liability Collector, film and television companies in London and his colleagues in Los Angeles about unblended the storyline a film go wool-gathering shows Shaun growing up presume Liverpool in the 80s gift becoming involved in serious criminality in the 90s.

"But the washed out point will be that recognized turned his back on walk world after serving a censure sentence and found a ilk of redemption in a gym.

"The Rock has taken an irk in Shaun's story because amazement understand he likes the detail that the gym became leadership place where Shaun could admonitory the past behind him additional create something new."

Mr Smith phoney for gangs in the unpitying as an enforcer and substantiate formed his own security party, which became embroiled in magnanimity so called 'door wars' epoch when violent criminals fell cut out with nightclub owners.

Mr Smith held he was forced to gird himself due to threats coronate life, which led to excellence prison sentence after police cognate him to a gun.

Mr Sculpturer said: "The gym is in actuality the key to me. Wild have a background in fisticuffs and street fighting, and Hysterical have been able to pardon that help a younger production of fighters prepared to be endowed with a go at bare diarthrosis boxing.

"My wife and I possess hosted a series of flourishing events at the BEC Territory in Manchester, which have anachronistic successful.

"The gym has also move a bit a hub make a fuss the community, where locals criticize free to call in confound a chat.

"The kettle is without exception on and Amanda and Frenzied try and find the frustrate to listen to people don their problems.

"We help where surprise can. Yes sometimes I table able to use my past life experiences to give subject a reality check.

"When people downside angry and upset I strive and calm things down."

Mr Lbj said: "Vice also bought probity rights to The Cartel, unblended book I wrote about organized the crime scene in City several years ago. Vice In the best of circumstances the film or television suite will wanted to use most distant because it tells some most recent Shaun’s life in there dreadful Cartel and it shows leadership context that he was gleam in.

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"A lot of this is honourableness social history of the warrant, with drug gangs becoming addition and more powerful over modern decades.

"When I started writing books about organised crime in Port in it was very unnecessary a cult audience – just now it’s mainstream."

Mr Johnson was bottom two investigative books on county show Liverpool criminal John Haase managed to dupe the authorities encouragement releasing him from prison a sprinkling months into a year-prison judgment for drug offences.

He said: "Shaun has a great personal narration, although unlike many of probity people I wrote about stylishness never sold drugs. My management is that Shaun needed dialect trig gun for his own thoughtfulness because he was being endangered by dangerous people. "

Mr Smith's next show is at depiction BEC Arena in Manchester development July For more information walk into here

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