20-06-2025
Starz Sets British Boxing Drama ‘Fightland' From Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson
Starz has greenlit the drama project Fightland, a high-octane scripted series set in the cutthroat, high-stakes, cash-rich world of British boxing.
Executive produced by Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson through his G-Unit Film & Television, the series delivers a gripping story of redemption, betrayal, and brutal ambition in and out of the ring. Starz has ordered eight episodes of the crime drama, with production slated to begin this fall in London.
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According to the show's logline, Fightland follows a disgraced, formerly incarcerated boxing champion who returns to London to seek vengeance against the crime family he thinks betrayed him. With edge-of-seat action and populated by dangerous characters, this is a world of money and power never seen before.
'Fightland marks my first internationally produced show through my G-Unit Film & Television. I am excited to bring that global energy to the screen,' said Jackson. 'I anticipate this to be more successful than anything I've done before—boxing's raw stakes are gonna take it to another level.'
Fightland joined Jackson's multiple other successful series at Starz, including the 'Power' franchise crime dramas: Power (2014), Power Book II: Ghost (2020), Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Power Book IV: Force, with two more titles currently in development, Power: Origins and, as Deadline just revealed exclusively this week, Power: Legacy (w/t), which is expected to star Joseph Sikora and Michael Rainey Jr.
Jackson will executive produce through his G-Unit Film & Television, along with Francis Hopkinson (Wallander, Bancroft) and Kate Leadbetter (Woman in White, Catherine the Great) of Expanded Media, who will also produce. The series also reunites Starz with Damione Macedon (Power, BMF) and Raphael Jackson Jr. (Power, BMF), who will serve as showrunners, executive producers, and writers. Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith will serve as executive producers and writers.
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Jackson is repped by IAG and attorney Stephen Savva.
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