50 Cent can’t leave El Chapo alone.
The G-Unit general has partnered with BET to create an unscripted TV series about Margarito and Pedro Flores, twin brothers from Chicago who became “the most prolific drug dealers in the city’s history” before cooperating with the DEA to bring down Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
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50 told the Flores brothers’ story last year in the podcast Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down a Drug Lord, which he executive produced and hosted. This new TV series, to be titled The Twins, is billed as a “companion” to that podcast, per Deadline.
Surviving El Chapo‘s second season ended earlier this month.
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This is only the latest bit of good news for 50’s G-Unit Film & Television company.
On Tuesday (December 12), it was reported that 50 received approval from the Shreveport City Council in Louisiana to take over a massive studio, per KSLA12.
The lease will cost Fif $2,400 annually for 30 years, after which he can renew it for 15 more if he pleases.
Last month, city council members introduced legislation for the lease of the Millennium Movie Studio as a base for 50’s entertainment company, G-Unit Film & Television Louisiana, LLC.
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“We enjoyed for a period after 2005, we enjoyed a very robust television and film industry in the Shreveport area,” Mayor Tom Arceneaux said. “This will bring back, I think, a lot of those people and will rejuvenate that industry in our area. So I think the film industry is about to blossom again in Shreveport.
“[50 Cent]’s undertaking all of the maintenance and repair, which is around 160 to 170 thousand dollars a year. So to look at just the lease payment is not fair to him. We also anticipate he’s going to make several million dollars of improvements to the facility. This is a very serious proposal, a very serious undertaking by him.”
