50 Cent x Cheetah Vision. Although 50 Cent’s first movie under his Cheetah Vision production company banner is the Before I Self Destruct movie included in the upcoming album, big things are in store and set to get bigger. Cheetah Vision has just announced it is partnering up with Action Jackson films to finance and produce 3-5 films a year starting with The Gun.

The Gun will star 50 Cent and his new BFF Val Kilmer (remember the straight to DVD Streets of Blood anyone?) where 50 and Kilmer play friends whose loyalties are tested when they get caught up in the world of illegal gun dealing. Pic will shoot in Grand Rapids, Mich., with Chris Lighty on board as a producer.

Variety reports that the script grew out of the rapper-actor’s curiosity about how guns go from being manufactured and shipped for legal use to somehow “falling into the hands of the wrong people,” Curtis Jackson said. “It’s a socially conscious theme that people aren’t paying attention to.”

Jackson said his goal in forming Cheetah Vision with Emmett was to create star vehicles — and get the chance to produce and write. This is the first of three feature scripts Curtis Jackson has written, and he feels he is getting the hang of a form much different than songwriting.

“When you write a song, you need to say it in three minutes or it is overkill, but I like creating stories and going in depth with characters,” he said.

Jackson will follow The Gun with the Cheetah Vision-produced drama Jekyll and Hyde starring alongside Forest Whitaker. While other hip-hop artists are struggling to have consistent work in Hollywood, 50 Cent has set himself up for some longevity in this town and a steady stream of acting jobs.  He might need this new revenue stream if Before I Self Destruct stalls on the Billboard charts.

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