Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson Joins Payday TV Show as Executive Producer

Starbreeze Entertainment and Vice Studio's Payday TV amusement has added an unexpected sanction to its team: rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.

The creator and histrion down everything from 2000s deed "In Da Club" to 2009 video crippled 50 Cent: Blood connected the Sand has officially joined the heist video crippled adaptation arsenic an enforcement producer. He's attached via his G-Unit Film and Television, a institution helium launched successful the 2000s arsenic portion of his enactment extracurricular of music.

"G-Unit Film & TV has built cinematic transgression stories that link with audiences astir the world," 50 Cent said successful a statement. "Teaming up with Vice Studios and bringing the satellite of Payday to the surface gives america the accidental to physique thing big, a high-energy franchise that pushes the heist genre forward."

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images.

50 Cent has plentifulness of acquisition some successful beforehand of and down the camera. He's astir precocious served arsenic an enforcement shaper connected shows similar Fightland, The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets, and Power Book IV: Force.

As an actor, he's shown up for movies similar Den of Thieves, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, and Southpaw. One of his astir notable movie roles volition really get successful October erstwhile helium plays Balrog for the live-action Street Fighter movie. Gaming fans whitethorn besides admit him from his enactment not lone successful projects similar Blood connected the Sand and 50 Cent: Bulletproof but besides the archetypal Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

"Payday has ever been astir the phantasy of getting distant with it," Starbreeze CEO Adolf Kristjansson said. "Curtis and G-Unit don’t bash subtle, and neither bash we. This is not astir playing it safe; it's astir doing the franchise justness with radical who are arsenic immersed successful the satellite arsenic we are."

It seems 50 Cent's engagement successful Payday seems to beryllium constricted to his portion arsenic an enforcement producer. As the pieces to Starbreeze and Vice's expansive strategy are inactive coming together, the video game-to-TV-show adaptation is inactive without a web oregon streamer to aerial it.

Payday, meanwhile, is Starbreeze's long-running co-op video crippled series, which was announced to travel to the TV satellite with assistance from Vice this past March. The bid has followed masked criminals similar Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf, and Chains arsenic they crippled and execute high-level heists. Payday has received 3 mainline entries to varying degrees of success. Payday 2, for example, inactive attracts tens of thousands of players connected Steam unsocial each day, portion its astir caller entry, Payday 3, has struggled to clasp involvement pursuing its highly rocky motorboat backmost successful 2023.

"Vice has ever been drawn to stories that unrecorded extracurricular the lines, and Payday is precisely that benignant of world," president of Vice Studios Amy Powell said. "G-Unit understands what makes Payday tick, and they’re bringing a position that’s existent to the franchise without playing it safe."

Starbreeze has besides teased its involvement successful a Payday movie successful the past, though we've received fewer updates connected that beforehand truthful far. For now, the Payday TV amusement has nary merchandise date, cast, oregon crippled details acceptable to beryllium officially revealed. You tin work up connected the four-player co-op VR spinoff called Payday: Aces High that was announced earlier this year.

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Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).