Dwayne Johnson and Issa Rae developing backyard wrestling series for HBO

According to Variety, Dwayne Johnson is teaming up with Issa Rae and Dany Garcia to develop a show about the formation of a backyard wrestling group for HBO. The project is coming from writer Mohamad El Masri (Here And Now, October Faction), and it’s about an aspiring pro-wrestler who uses an inheritance to launch a “hip-hop centric backyard wrestling empire in Houston’s Third Ward” along with his friends and working-class family. (Houston’s Third Ward is called “The Tre,” by the way, which will come up when we get to this show’s questionable name.) Issa Rae, of course, is the star and co-creator of Insecure, while Johnson and Garcia were both executive producers on Johnson’s Ballers, so this is like a very small Avengers of people who have made successful HBO shows.