Payday Is Getting A TV Show With 50 Cent As Executive Producer

Starbreeze Leisure is making a TV collection out of its co-op bank-robbing simulator, Payday. Whereas we don’t have any particulars on when the present is popping out or the place it’ll air, we do know, courtesy of Variety, that Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has signed on to be an govt producer.

“Payday has all the time been concerning the fantasy of getting away with it. Curtis and G-Unit don’t do delicate, and neither will we,” mentioned Starbreeze Leisure CEO Adolf Kristjansson in the announcement.

Jackson’s manufacturing firm, G-Unit Movie & TV, will accomplice with Payday studio Starbreeze Leisure and Vice Productions to make the present. It’s an excellent get. G-Unit has already produced a profitable franchise of crime dramas on Starz — the Energy collection, through which Jackson himself generally seems as one of many principal characters.

With Payday, Jackson and his manufacturing companions will commerce constructing a drug empire for robbing banks. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how the present manages to seize the chaos typical of a Payday heist, or in the event that they’ll attempt to make a severe, prestige-y present out of it. After the rough launch of Payday 3 in 2023, the collection has quietly plugged together with a VR title, Payday Aces Excessive, releasing later this yr. The VR sport and the brand new tv collection is a part of an effort to expand the Payday franchise past the bottom video games.