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Artist News
New Eminem film scrapped
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 15 August 2011
A new film due to star Eminem as an up-and-coming boxer has been scrapped by Dreamworks prior to filming starting.
However, the rapper and the film’s director Antoine Fuqua may now pitch the project to other studios.
Though there is speculation that ‘Southpaw’ was dropped by Dreamworks simply because of the high number of other boxing movies already in the works, which doesn’t suggest they would be successful if they did approach other studio partners.
The film would see Eminem’s character overcome personal tragedy to become better as a boxer and a person. If it doesn’t now get made but you like the sound of it, just try watching ‘8 Mile’ and imagining that Eminem is boxing every time he appears on screen rapping. That should do it.
