Paramount+ is reportedly planning a 50 Cent co-produced series with the working title Vice City. It was written by Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters, both of whom are mainly responsible for the script of the upcoming, seventh “Transformers” film “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”. “John Wick” director Chad Stahelski is set to direct. Curtis Jackson, 50 Cent’s real name, is involved as a producer through his company G-Unit Film & Television.
In addition, he has already distinguished himself as an advertising medium. Jackson had already caused confusion and excitement on March 2nd. The 50-year-old shared a picture of the lettering for the popular video game GTA: Vice City. “I’ll explain to you later” and “This will be bigger than POWER,” he wrote under the since-deleted post. Power was a series he co-produced between 2014 and 2020, in which he himself had a starring role.
Vice City as in GTA: Vice City?
This led many fans to suspect that the background to the announcement could be an appearance by 50 Cent in the upcoming, although not yet finally announced, sixth part of the video game series “Grand Theft Auto”. However, the now confirmed series project seems to have little to do with the series and its offshoots “GTA: Vice City” and “GTA: Vice City Stories”, apart from the setting and some topics: Miami in the 1980s, drug trafficking, stranded characters , mafia structures.
The plot synopsis reads like this:
“vice city follows three friends, ex-soldiers, who return to their hometown of Miami in the mid-’80s after being discharged from the military with disgrace for their involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. With no job prospects and betrayed by their country, driven by lack of money and criminal ambitions, they team up with a mysterious Colombian immigrant to commit robberies together. Driven by money, they live a violent and dangerous version of the American dream.”
It seems reasonable to assume that Vice City is just a working title since the name is so closely related to the GTA brand, which Paramount has no rights to. In addition to his involvement with Power, which includes several spin-offs and this series, 50 Cent is also involved with a series based on the 2002 Emimen film 8 Mile. His musical career, on the other hand, has been on the decline since 2010 at the latest. All releases after 2005’s THE MASSACRE have failed to replicate its commercial success and that of its debut and still most successful album GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’.