Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and Power executive producer Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson are teaming up to adapt the bestselling book, The 50th Law, for Netflix. Deadline broke the news of the pairing yesterday. Kenya Barris & 50 Cent Adapt ‘The 50th Law’ for Netflix
Barris will be executive producing the show as well as writing the pilot script along with his BlackAF executive producing partner, Hale Rothstein. The two will executive produce alongside Jackson via his G-Unit banner and The 50th Law author Robert Greene. The series will be produced Lionsgate TV by way of Jackson’s overall deal at Starz.
In the semi-autobiographical account, The 50th Law details 50 Cent’s rise as a young urban hustler and up-and-coming musician with lessons and anecdotes from historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Sun Tzu, Socrates, Napoleon, Malcolm X and James Baldwin. Originally published in 2009, The 50th Law The 50th Law is a New York Times bestselling book on strategy and fearlessness written collaboratively by rapper 50 Cent and author Robert Greene.
Greene is the author of the best-selling books The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature – all selling over 3 million copies combined.
Jackson is successfully segueing into television via his company G-Unit Film & Television. Jackson acts as executive producer on the Starz hit series Power, Power Book II: Ghost and the upcoming Power Book III: Raising Kanan.
Barris is the award winning creator and executive producer behind the hit show Black-ish which has received multiple spinoff including; Grown-ish, Mixed-ish, Netlfix’s BlackAF, and his upcoming series Old-ish. Barris is also jumping into film with a reboot of the 2003 comedy Cheaper by the Dozen with Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff, the sports comedy White Men Can’t Jump, and an upcoming Richard Pryor biopic that will mark his feature directorial debut.
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