50 Cent honour late friend with new movie
50 Cent defied his production team to press ahead with making his football drama All Things Fall Apart because he was determined to honour a close friend he lost to cancer.
The In Da Club rapper wrote the script for the upcoming film, in which he portrays a sportsman battling with health issues after doctors find a tumour inches from his heart.
Another of the film's stars, Mario Van Peebles, directs the films and it was recently picked up for distribution by image bosses at Image Entertainment.
All Things Fall Apart premiered at the Miami Film Festival earlier in the year and 50 Cent is grateful for all the glowing reviews it received as it supports his decision to ignore the advice of his business associates.
He tweeted: "So you all know All Things Fall Apart is the kind of movie that is really hard to get studios to finances (sic). My partners were against the idea at first then changed there (sic) minds after they saw the movie. All the positive feed back I received makes me feel like I was right.
I wrote produced and financed the film. I lost some (one) really close to me to cancer. this film is symbol of our friend ship (sic)."
All Things Fall Apart also features Ray Liotta and is scheduled to be in cinemas early next year.
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