50 Cent shared the information on Friday (Jan. 6) that he’s adapting the 2002 movie 8 Mile right into a TV collection with the assistance of Eminem.
“I’m gonna deliver his 8 Mile to tv,” the rapper stated in an interview with Large Boy TV about Em’s semi-autobiographical movie. “We’re in movement.” (50 additionally confirmed that Eminem can even be concerned within the undertaking after host Large Boy requested, “Does he know?”)
“It’s gonna be massive. I ain’t obtained no duds. I’m battin’ 100, I’m battin’ 100,” he continued, seemingly referring to his long-running Starz collection Energy in addition to its varied spinoffs Energy Guide II: Ghost, Energy Guide III: Elevating Kanan and Energy Guide IV: Pressure. Born Curtis Jackson, the multi-hyphenate additionally had a job within the 2020 ABC authorized drama For Life for the whole lot of its two-season run.
“Who’s concept is that? Did it’s important to persuade Em? As a result of 8 Mile is a basic,” Large Boy then queried, main 50 to reply, “No, I feel it ought to be there for his legacy, as a result of in case you don’t see… it’s necessary to me that they perceive it, you realize what I imply?”
Again in November, 50 Cent served as visitor host for The Drew Barrymore Present whereas host Drew Barrymore was out sick with COVID. In the meantime, the artist in any other case often called Marshall Mathers obtained right into a rap battle with Spider-Man on a restricted version cowl of The Wonderful Spider-Man #1 that very same month.
Watch 50 Cent dish on the 8 Mile TV collection and Eminem’s legacy beneath. (Begins on the 24:50 mark.)
