First a book, and now it appears a movie is in Kwame Kilpatrick's future.
The former Detroit mayor took to Twitter on Monday to tell about his upcoming movie "The Real Kwame Kilpatrick."
"Everyone assumes they know me," his Twitter page said, with a link to the video uploaded on You Tube. "Here's the beginning of me telling my own story...the real story!"
Kilpatrick was sent to prison in 2010 and spent 14 months behind bars for failing to pay restitution he owed as part of a deal he reached to end the criminal prosecution stemming from the 2008 text message scandal that drove him from office.
The trailer is just under a minute and a half in length and had been viewed 382 this morning.
"I know you've heard so many stories about Kwame Kilpatrick," he said in the video. "I've heard so many of those stories myself."
It features an interview with his wife Carlita Kilpatrick talking about being mailed Kwame Kilpatrick's suit after he went to prison.
"He was gone and that suit kind of still had his cologne in it," she said. "But I knew he'd be home."
The trailer, which is a production by Kilpatrick's sister Ayanna Kilpatrick Ferguson, shows Kilpatrick signing a book and riding in a car.
No release date was given, but the video says "coming soon."
Two men recorded Kilpatrick's release from prison in Jackson last August and appeared to be shooting video of the neighborhood where Kilpatrick's sister and mother, former congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, live next door to each other.
"I believe the reason he is doing this is because there's been so much out there said about him from one side," said Mike Paul, a former Kilpatrick spokesman, who is based in New York City.
He said a movie allows Kilpatrick's story to get out from his perspective.
"I think that utilizing either television or film from his point of view is a smart way to go," Paul said.
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