Em is tapping into his acting skills again (he was amazing in 8 Mile!) and is set to star in the upcoming movie, Southpaw. The flick is being developed just for Em, and he will play a welterweight boxer who earns the title…but suffers from a tragedy in his personal life.
Early reports are saying the movie is basically an 8 Mile part 2…a continuation of sorts. The script should be ready by February. Hit the jump to see what the writer, Kurt Sutter, had to say about the project.
“I took meetings with Marshall’s producing partners over the past 7 years, looking for something to do together. I know he’s very selective and doesn’t do a lot. But he shared so much of his personal struggle in this raw and very honest album, one that I connected with on a lot of levels. He is very interested in the boxing genre, and it seemed like an apt metaphor, because his own life has been a brawl.
At its core, this is a retelling of his struggles over the last five years of his life, using the boxing analogy. I love that the title refers to Marshall being a lefty, which is to boxing what a white rapper is to Hip-Hop; dangerous, unwanted and completely unorthodox. It’s a much harder road for a southpaw than a right handed boxer.”
