50 Cent’s Vice City teaser not related to GTA after all, new report says

Working title of a new Paramount+ streaming series

Marco Wutz | Mar 10, 2023

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.

Published Mar 10, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg