50 Cent is becoming just as big a figure in the television and film space as he is in the music industry.
On Tuesday (December 17), it was announced 50 will be teaming up with Lionsgate to produce Trill League, an animated series adapted from Anthony Piper’s indie graphic novel of the same name. It will be produced by 3 Arts Entertainment and G-Unit Film & Television in association with Lionsgate Television. Piper and Jameel Saleem (writer on South Park) will be co-creators and writers for the new series.
According to producers, the series will follow a team of black superheroes who save the day from “monsters, super villains and haters of all kinds.” Trill League will be the first of many shows on Quibi, a new short-form streaming video platform coming in April 2020.
“I am excited to bring G-Unit Film & Television to an innovative platform like Quibi with my partners at Lionsgate and 3 Arts,” 50 said in a statement. “Anthony Piper and Jameel Saleem have created a world we haven’t seen before in Trill League, looking forward to sharing it soon.”
The graphic novel, which parodies several DC Comics characters, was released in 2015 after Piper received some assistance through a Kickstarter campaign.
“As an artist and writer, I couldn’t be more excited to fulfill this lifelong dream of creating a world with voices which reflected the one I came from,” Piper said in a statement. “Working alongside my talented co-writer Jameel, as well as all of the partners involved (G-Unit, Lionsgate, Quibi, 3Arts), this has been one of the dopest endeavors of my creative career.”
Trill League isn’t the only thing 50 has his hands on. He’s been teasing a prequel to the hit show Power and producing a new series about the Black Mafia Family. 50 is looking to leave a huge mark in the television and film industry.
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Imagine if some white people came up with a White Superhero series, the entire media would be outraged and sicking their social media mobs on them smh
Before long there’s gonna be more black characters in movies and shows than any other race Haha yet they are not even 20 percent of the total population smh. I don’t see any Hispanic people complaining and there’s more Hispanic people than black people and rarely do I see a Hispanic character on anything. Yet black people justify their complaints because their ancestors were mistreated so it’s okay. I say that’s bs. 50 cent says well we’re not privileged and have it as easy as white people so it’s okay to make a show with an all black cast. Yet 50 cent is a super successful multi millionaire along with thousands and thousands of other black people. This doesn’t add up. How far and how long can black people stretch this out? How many shows and movies with an all black cast, a black channel, black this, and black that? Yet not even 20 percent of the population?
About 300 plus MORE years…Your welcome.
hahahahahahahahaahhaahhahahhahaahahahahhahahhahahahaha this was clearly written inside the tiny bubble youve never stepped foot out of.
Do you want to talk about double standards? How about the fact that white people whitewashed Jesus Christ? Somehow it’s ok for white people to change our lord and savior to a white man (he was brown, look it up), but God forbid there is a show about black superheroes.
Look it up? Do they all tell you where god is located or why he dosent do anything down here? Who wrote that book saying he was brown or white? How do you know he wasnt fibbing? dosent matter what color anyone is stop playing that bullshit card rasicm is only.kept alive because everyone keeps it alive by making every situation black and white stop it already
Every super hero is white fam… Even the ones that weren’t white were made white, like Jesus and the Last Samurai loool
This is cool. I’m white, and I hate liberal PC BS culture. But this… This here is making entertainment for the kids who feel like they want someone more relatable. Nothing wrong with this at all. I do however think it’s kind of a bullshit ploy to point out the skin color, considering this is 2020… White people embrace black characters as much as anyone else, so long as the character is written well. Skin color has become less important, yet somehow, more important.
We need a trans gender teen super hero too! Don’t forget, we have multiple black heroes… But no trans gender ones, because of systematic hatred and oppression of my people.
They can keep it that way thanks I dont walk around preaching I’m straight keep that shit zipped up
Wow, they are such liars! That boy is brown, not black! Do they even know what colors and shades look like? That’s like calling Trump a white man! It’s a lie!
Superheroes chilling in front of a trap house…yeah cause thats what being black means….gotta hang at a damn traphouse….smh
Now u stealing h-town slang