The preview for 50 Cent's forthcoming film, 'Things Fall Apart,' in which he plays a college football player who's struck with cancer, has appeared online.
Recently shown at the Miami Film Festival, this is the cinema where the rapper lost a lot of burden to be in character.
Directed by and also starring Mario Van Peeples, who plays Jackson's father, the movie also features Ray Liotta as the doctor aiding him during his treatment process.
The project also includes Lynn Whitfield as Jackson's mother, Tracey Heggins, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Steve Eastin, Ambyr Childers and Cedric Sanders.
The rapper/actor undergoes an astonishing physical transformation as Deon Barnes, a promising Michigan football running back who dreams of one day getting drafted by the Miami Dolphins. A well-liked young man whose winning disposition makes him a hit with only about everybody (especially the girls), Deon has a strain on a Heisman Trophy until he one day collapses in the locker room following a big win. The diagnosis, delivered by his doctor (played by Liotta), is cancer, and Deon's blessed life comes crashing down round him as he undergoes chemotherapy, losing his hair and over 60 lbs. of muscle, his hair falling out, leaving him an emaciated shadow of his old self.
Based on the straight history of a faithful friend, 50 Cent also cowrote and coproduced this moving film, and provides many of the bracing original songs that take up its soundtrack. Like John Lee Hancock's 'The Blind Side,' football here becomes a vehicle for familial expressions of love, resentment and ultimate reconciliation.
After 50 Cent's last two films, 'Gun' and 'Caught in the Crossfire,' were released straight-to-DVD, director Van Peebles feels that this film represents a major shift for the actor/rapper and spoke to Blackvoices.com exclusively about casting him in his film.
"'Things Fall Apart' is the first film where 50 doesn't take a gun, and he's really stepping out of the box of what we love him as. He actually took the challenge well. Initially I wanted to do 'Things Fall Apart' as an actor, then they got me in there. I kinda felt like Al Pacino, "They keep pulling me back!' "
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