50 Cent Says He's Working on 8 Mile TV Show with Eminem: It's 'in Motion'
50 Cent Says He's Working on 8 Mile TV Show with Eminem: It's 'in Motion'
The show is set to give a new take on the 2002 film 8 Mile, which starred Eminem




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50 Cent says he's turning the 2002 film eight Mileinto a TV show.

The rapper announced in the course of his Friday appearance at the BigBoyTV YouTube channel that the film, a semi-autographical tackle Eminem's existence, has a television show this is "in movement."

"I'm gonna deliver his 8 Mile to tv," he found, adding that Eminem, 50, is on board to help with the display's manufacturing.

"It's gonna be huge. I'm running. I ain't were given no duds. I'm batting one hundred," the 47-year-vintage rapper stated after being asked approximately the show. "I think it have to be there for his legacy because it's vital to me that they recognize it."

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According to the rapper, the assment will offer a "backstory" to the film and show Eminem's extra younger years. He moreover expressed a choice for the show to percentage Eminem's tale with a cutting-edge target market.

The movie's tale changed into closing revisited in 2020 whilst Eminem, who received Best Original Song at the 2003 Academy Awards for "Lose Yourself" from the movie's soundtrack, seemed at the 2020 Academy Awards to perform the anthem. The look got here after Eminem neglected the award rite in which he took home the win.

Most nominees will be predisposed to perform their songs at the stage, however Eminem skipped the 2003 ceremony altogether. Instead, the Detroit rapper changed into sleeping at his home in Michigan with the TV tuned to cartoons for his daughter, Hailie, the Detroit Free Press mentioned on the time.

The rapper had in advance determined to take a seat down out the swank ceremony, determining it "wasn't his form of gig," the paper noted. As a end result, Barbra Streisand wound up supplying the golden statuette for "Lose Yourself" to co-creator Luis Resto.

"Look, if you had every other shot, every different possibility… Thanks for having me @theacademy. Sorry it took me 18 years to get proper here," Eminem wrote on Instagram, sharing a clip of Resto accepting the award without him.

Last October, he venerated the music and extra music from the movie in a re-launch of the movie's proper soundtrack in honor of 8 Mile's 20th anniversary.

" 'I'm nevertheless fame right right here screaming "f*** the Free World."' #8Mile 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the soundtrack drops on streaming Friday!" he wrote alongside the statement of the re-launch with snippets from the film.

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