50 Cent’s Vice City teaser not related to GTA after all, new report says
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson garnered some attention from the video games community last week by posting a cryptic teaser on Instagram, which seemed to point towards the artist and producer being part of GTA 6 or a GTA-related TV show set in the fictional Vice City.
A report by Deadline comes to a different conclusion, however. According to the outlet, Vice City has nothing to do with the popular gaming franchise by Rockstar and is merely the working title of a new show for Paramount+ that 50 Cent’s production company, G-Unit Film & Television, is cooperating on with Lionsgate Television and Paramount Television Studios.
The show seems to follow a group of three friends, who were all dishonorably discharged from the US military for their involvement in the Iran Contra scandal and return to Miami. Seeking to make their way to prosperity in the society of the mid-80s they’ve been disgraced from, they team up with an immigrant from Colombia to form a crew and make lots of money.
It still kind of sounds like a GTA plot, doesn’t it? The parallels go further, though, since Rockstar’s Vice City is also based on Miami.
The infamous setting is very likely to return in the upcoming GTA 6, which reportedly features a Bonnie & Clyde-style crime story playing out in a modern version of Vice City. As of right now, it doesn’t seem like 50 Cent is in any way involved with the project, so it’s safe to assume that he merely used the fame of Vice City as a GTA setting to create some buzz around his new show – certainly a business-savvy move, if a little disappointing for gaming fans.
Rockstar has previously rejected a pitch for a GTA movie with Eminem, preferring to keep Grand Theft Auto in the realm of video games instead of expanding it to other forms of media.
