Black Voices: Money and Employment News from Across the Nation
- Hulu reportedly paid $75 million to secure an untitled three-part documentary about Curtis Jackson, beating Starz, Netflix, and Apple.
- The three-part series chronicles 50 Cent's rise from South Jamaica, Queens, surviving nine gunshot wounds, to releasing Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
- Directed by Mandon Lovett, showrunner Patrick Altema, executive producers include Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, and 50 Cent via G-Unit Film & Television and IPC.
- No premiere date yet, but 50 Cent's TV track record with Power and Raising Kanan made the bidding war inevitable.
At this point, it’s time we all crown 50 Cent the king of television.
On April 1st, Curtis Jackson posted on social media that Hulu paid $75 million for a documentary about his life, beating out Starz, Netflix, and Apple to get it. As he’s known to be the king of trolling, we all took this as 50 being 50, except he was the one laughing… all the way to the bank.
Per Deadline, it’s now official that Hulu has greenlit an untitled three-part documentary series on 50 Cent, and this time, the narrative is about him instead of someone else. The series will cover the full arc of his life from growing up in South Jamaica, Queens, surviving nine gunshot wounds in 2000, releasing Get Rich or Die Tryin’ in 2003, and turning all of it into one of the most successful business runs hip hop has ever seen.
Fif has spent the better part of a decade producing other people’s projects through G-Unit Film & Television, but fans watched Power and Raising Kanan for years without realizing how much of it pulled from his real life, and now we’ll get to learn his full story.
The documentary will be directed by Mandon Lovett, who previously directed The French Montana Story: For Khadija and Boys in Blue. Patrick Altema comes on as showrunner, with Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman executive producing alongside 50 Cent through G-Unit Film & Television and IPC.
Between the Power franchise on Starz, Sean Combs: The Reckoning hitting number one on Netflix, and more than 30 million records sold, 50 Cent has spent years proving he belongs on both sides of the camera. After all of that, a bidding war for his own story was really just a matter of time.
No premiere date has been set. Knowing 50 Cent, he’ll make sure you hear about it when the time comes.
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