50 Cent is bringing his G-Unit empire to the UK with Fightland, a gritty boxing crime drama set to premiere on Starz on July 31.
50 Cent is bringing his G-Unit empire to the UK with a new crime drama set to shake up Starz.
The network just announced that Fightland, the gritty boxing series executive produced by the Queens legend, will premiere on July 31, with new episodes dropping every Friday.
This marks Starz’s first wholly-owned original production since its split from Lionsgate and signals the network’s commitment to building out its own content pipeline.
The series tells the story of Duke Kilroy, a disgraced former heavyweight champion whose world comes crashing down after his brother Calvin is murdered in a brutal attack. Duke was furious and ended up spending eight years in a U.S. prison, and when he was finally released, he had only one thing on his mind: revenge.
According to Variety , Duke returned to London convinced that his former promoter, crime boss Kingsley Marshall, had framed him.
The cast includes Nicholas Pinnock as Kingsley, Deborah Ayorinde as Joey, Charles Babalola, Tahirah Sharif, Taylor Conti and Anita-Joy Uwaj, all bringing talented talents into a world of money, power and betrayal.
According to “Variety”, 50 Cent’s G-Unit Film & Television is producing with Expanded Media, and the entire film is built on 50 Cent’s strong track record in crime dramas.
The show will be available on the Starz app and all streaming platforms for anyone with a subscription.
It was the first international show to be produced through G-Unit in the 1950s, and he clearly bet big on London’s boxing underworld, using it as the backdrop for a story about loyalty, betrayal and the cost of revenge.
The network has positioned it as a flagship production for a new era of independent companies, premiering weekly and running on deadline.
