After a controversial false start , Dante Tex Gill is finally bound for Hollywood.

Deadline reported Tuesday that Rub & Tug, which depicts Pittsburghs underground sex industry of the 1970s and 80s, is being redeveloped as a television series. The shows pilot will be written by Our Lady J , an Emmy nominee whose credits include Transparent and Pose. Producers also are interested in casting a transgender actor for the lead role of Gill, a trans mobster who ran an empire of massage parlors as thinly disguised fronts for sex workers.

I couldnt be more excited about the opportunity to write a gangster drama based on such a fascinating and diverse web of queer characters, Our Lady J, who is transgender, told Deadline in a statement. The show is about the promise of reinvention, and the peril of losing oneself in the process.

She added: Tex Gill was out and proud in an era the late 1970s when living authentically came with the price of social ostracization, leaving him vulnerable to a life of crime and lawlessness. Having grown up in Pennsylvania myself, Im also excited to delve deep into Pittsburghs underbelly as it unspools the story of Texs remarkable life its also the story of a citys struggle for rebirth and a proud communitys efforts to make its voice heard.