Written, co-produced and starring 50 Cent, Gun is the latest big screen venture from the multiplatinum rapper whose film career kicked off in 2005 with Get Rich And Die Trying, followed by performances alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Righteous Kill; Samuel L Jackson in Home of the Brave; Val Kilmer in Streets of Blood; culminating with Before I Self Destruct in 2009.

For Gun, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, teamed up again with veteran screen star, Val Kilmer, James Remar and director, Jesse Terrero, to bring his vision to the screen.

“Initially when I started the plot, it was a socially conscious story about how guns go from the manufacturing point to retail and purchased by law-abiding citizens and how they fall into the wrong hands. And what made it interesting and so relevant ... was the fact that companies like Smith & Wesson are up 125 percent in sales in the middle of a recession."

Gun is the story of how men on both sides of the law cross that barrier and turn these basic metals into weapons of wealth, justice, revenge and power.

Gun was filmed in and around the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan during the bitter cold months of winter. On set the soft spoken Jackson was recognised as not the kind of actor who receives a producer’s credit but doesn’t really do anything.

Co-producer, Randall Emmett, said: “It’s exciting for me to work with someone as committed as he is. He brings his own mobile studio with him.” Emmett added. “He’ll have three-and-a-half minutes between takes, and you’ll see him in his trailer working on music. He makes everyone else feel lazy.”

The soft-spoken Jackson, who wrote the script, serves as its music director and even helped select cameras and cast members. He said he has been offered acting roles, but prefers to pursue “projects that have the level of artistic integrity I want to be associated with.”

Synopsis
In the face of rising crime rates and gun violence, the Detroit Police launches a full-scale war against gun runners. With the cooperation of the Feds they target a criminal named Rich (Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson) and his arms operation. When a gun exchange goes bad and Rich's old friend Angel (Val Kilmer) steps up big time and saves his life, they form a bond that makes his supplier and lover, Gabriella (Anna Lynne McCord) paranoid. But there is a snitch in the group and Gabriella's biggest deal goes bad only to have an even bigger secret revealed, one that rocks Rich to his core.

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