50 Cent is in final talks to join the
Robert De Niro and
Al Pacino thriller
Righteous Kill which has just been picked up by Overture Films with a $60 million budget attached.
Jon Avnet is helming the picture in what will be his second team-up with Pacino after
88 Minutes which may have gone straight to dvd? Does anyone know what happened to that movie?
Inside Man scribe
Russell Gerwitz is said to be writing the screenplay for Righteous Kill which will see Al Pacino and Robert De Niro star as two detectives for the whole running time of the film for the first time in their careers. They of course starred together but never in the same scene in
The Godfather Part II and they shared one legendary scene together in the 1995 film
Heat. 50 Cent got some terrible reviews for his debut film
Get Rich or Die Tryin but the word from
Dark Horizons is that he has been offered the part of a drug dealer who helps the detectives along with their investigation, so hopefully his part is only small!