Eminem will return to the silver screen in the movie Southpaw, a drama in which he will play a "fast-rising welterweight boxer who brawls his way to the title, only to see his world crash down around him due to tragedy," according to Deadline.
Sons of Anarchy creator/executive producer Kurt Sutter will write the script, and he says that the project has been several years in the making. "I took meetings with Marshall's producing partners over the past seven years, looking for something to do together," Sutter told Deadline.
"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 [Recovery], 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." He added, "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."
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