WATCH: Mona Scott-Young On Creating 'Love & Murder Atlanta Playboy'
Over the course of three decades, this media mogul helped launch the careers of several artists and has left an undeniable imprint on the genre of unscripted television.
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00:00 with that, your new film series, Love and Murder.
00:02 Can you actually talk to me about what was the process
00:06 in putting that together?
00:07 And what was it about the story of Lance Herndon
00:10 that intrigued you to make this?
00:11 - Larissa Bates at BET wanted to do something
00:17 in the passion thriller space, right?
00:18 Finding stories that were salacious
00:22 and that had the element of murder,
00:26 all of the topics that we know resonate, right?
00:29 Love and murder.
00:30 So this one was one of a few stories
00:32 that we had looked at to develop.
00:34 But when you look at Lance's life
00:36 and who he was back at a time where, you know,
00:39 the tech industry was burgeoning.
00:43 And here he was this major player in that space,
00:47 you know, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist,
00:50 but also this really big ladies' man.
00:53 He was a local celebrity,
00:56 but he had his reputation for being a ladies' man
01:01 was as big as his reputation for being a businessman.
01:03 And to have been so brutally murdered,
01:06 it was one of those cases that shocked, you know,
01:09 Atlanta at the time.
01:10 And so in looking at the different stories,
01:13 that would just check so many boxes, right?
01:15 It was like Atlanta, which is an amazing backdrop, right?
01:18 The culture, the city of Atlanta.
01:21 It was, you know, this man who had all of these women,
01:24 any one of them could have done it.
01:26 And even though a lot of the elements of his story
01:29 were easily Google-able, right?
01:31 It still had this element of mystery about it
01:35 because who knows?
01:38 So we wanted to kind of dive into that, play with that,
01:43 walk the line between all of the elements
01:45 that were true to his life,
01:47 but making a compelling and entertaining, you know, project.
01:51 So broke it up into two parts,
01:53 but we're hoping that this is one in a series of many.
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