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]]>50 Cent, who also serves as the series executive producer, confirmed the news on social media.
“Oh yeah I’m bringing the big dogs out, I couldn’t do a show based in Detroit without incorporating the legend @eminem,” 50 Cent wrote on Instagram while posting a photo of a headline reporting Eminem’s casting.
The series is based on the true story of brothers Demetrius Flenory and Terry Flenory. The pair started as small-time dealers in Detroit before founding the Black Mafia Family organization and establishing it as one of the country’s biggest drug trafficking and money laundering operations.
Eminem’s character Richard Wershe Jr. AKA White Boy Rick was the youngest informant in FBI history, being employed at the age of 14 and working until he was 16. At the age of 17, Wershe was arrested with 17.6 pounds of cocaine and sentenced to life in prison. He received parole in 2017 and was released from prison in 2020.
Since his acclaimed appearance in 2002’s semi-biographical movie 8 Mile, Eminem took several acting gigs but always played a fictionalized role of himself. He was notably offered the lead role in the 2013 science-fiction flick Elysium but turned it down when director Neill Blomkamp didn’t want to relocate filming from Los Angeles to Detroit.
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]]>Back in 2018, he signed a massive multi-series overall deal with the network, and he’s one of the creative minds behind Black Mafia Family.
Jackson’s Power was a huge hit at Starz and it inspired four upcoming spinoffs set in the same universe, Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanana, Power Book IV: Influence, and Power Book V: Force.
Black Mafia Family is based on the true story of two brothers, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, who rose up from the streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and were part of one of the most influential crime families in the country. Their leadership and business sense allowed the duo to move beyond the drug trade and into the Hip Hop world.
“I told you ‘Black Mafia Family’ was coming and it’s going to be the biggest show on television,” Jackson said. “Meech and Terry are legends and I am excited to bring their story to Starz.”
Jackson will exec produce Black Mafia Family with Star and Power producer Randy Huggins. He currently has an ABC show, For Life, and he was recently given a star on the Walk of Fame.
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]]>The post Eminem to Star as White Boy Rick in 50 Cent’s New Series appeared first on TheDailyDay.
]]>50 Cent, who also serves as the series executive producer, confirmed the news on social media.
“Oh yeah I’m bringing the big dogs out, I couldn’t do a show based in Detroit without incorporating the legend @eminem,” 50 Cent wrote on Instagram while posting a photo of a headline reporting Eminem’s casting.
The series is based on the true story of brothers Demetrius Flenory and Terry Flenory. The pair started as small-time dealers in Detroit before founding the Black Mafia Family organization and establishing it as one of the country’s biggest drug trafficking and money laundering operations.
Eminem’s character Richard Wershe Jr. AKA White Boy Rick was the youngest informant in FBI history, being employed at the age of 14 and working until he was 16. At the age of 17, Wershe was arrested with 17.6 pounds of cocaine and sentenced to life in prison. He received parole in 2017 and was released from prison in 2020.
Since his acclaimed appearance in 2002’s semi-biographical movie 8 Mile, Eminem took several acting gigs but always played a fictionalized role of himself. He was notably offered the lead role in the 2013 science-fiction flick Elysium but turned it down when director Neill Blomkamp didn’t want to relocate filming from Los Angeles to Detroit.
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]]>The post 50 Cent’s “Black Mafia Family” Set at Starz appeared first on TheDailyDay.
]]>Back in 2018, he signed a massive multi-series overall deal with the network, and he’s one of the creative minds behind Black Mafia Family.
Jackson’s Power was a huge hit at Starz and it inspired four upcoming spinoffs set in the same universe, Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanana, Power Book IV: Influence, and Power Book V: Force.
Black Mafia Family is based on the true story of two brothers, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, who rose up from the streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and were part of one of the most influential crime families in the country. Their leadership and business sense allowed the duo to move beyond the drug trade and into the Hip Hop world.
“I told you ‘Black Mafia Family’ was coming and it’s going to be the biggest show on television,” Jackson said. “Meech and Terry are legends and I am excited to bring their story to Starz.”
Jackson will exec produce Black Mafia Family with Star and Power producer Randy Huggins. He currently has an ABC show, For Life, and he was recently given a star on the Walk of Fame.
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