Rick James 'Super Freak' will focus on James' music career and the early 1990s trial that derailed his attempt at a comeback. Universal Studio Group's UCP is tackling another real-life — and larger than life — subject: singer Rick James. The studio is developing Super Freak, a limited series it describes as "a funkadelic mix of music biopic and true crime," that would trace James' career and focus on his plans for a comeback in the early 1990s amid a trial for assault and kidnapping that threatens to destroy those plans and his legacy. Randy McKinnon ( Notes From a Young Black Chef, Netflix's