Eminem will be participating in 50 Cent’s plan to adapt the 2002 movie 8 Mile for television, he revealed in an interview with Big Boy.
“I’m gonna bring 8 Mile to television,” he revealed.
He teased that it’s “going to be big” and revealed that Eminem is involved in some way. Fif responded that he wants to work on a TV adaptation of the Curtis Hanson-directed, Eminem-starring movie because it “should be there for his legacy” when pressed for more information about the project.
“It’s important to me that they understand it,” he added, and compared the approach to that of the 2022 series Bel-Air, which is a dramatic retelling of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. “I’ma do Snoop’s story too, even though we paused on it because of Starz,” he said. “I was having issues with them over there at the time. So I paused on Murder Was the Case, but I think Snoop is…if the O.J. trial works, why wouldn’t Murder Was the Case work at this point?”