Creed’s Ryan Coogler is working on a new TV show about kids in juvenile hall

Working with poet Chinaka Hodge, the pair have put together a treatment for Minors, which is being sold as a mix between Orange Is The New Black and the fourth season of The Wire, in what might be the most depressing elevator pitch since Elisha Otis first made them a possibility. Tapping into their shared experience working with underprivileged youth—Coogler has worked for years as a counselor for kids in San Francisco’s Juvenile Hall—the trio plan to tell a story tracking the effects of the system on the kids caught up in it for an entire year.

According to Vulture, nobody’s bit so far, but it’s likely that Coogler’s name—which carries both the box office bona fides of Creed, and the future weight of a Marvel superhero movie—will eventually lure somebody in, despite the weighty subject matter.