50 Cent Joins 'Payday' TV Series as Executive Producer
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has signed on as an executive producer of the television adaptation of the Payday video games, according to Variety.
Jackson will produce through his G-Unit Film & Television banner. The series is being developed by Vice Studios, whose president is Amy Powell, and Starbreeze Entertainment, the Swedish games studio that created and publishes the Payday franchise. Adolf Kristjansson serves as CEO of Starbreeze.
The Payday games — Payday: The Heist, Payday 2, and Payday 3, all developed by Overkill Software — are co-operative heist shooters played on PC and consoles, with a global player community. Starbreeze and Vice Studios first announced their partnership to adapt the franchise for film and television on 18 March 2026.
No writer is attached yet. No network or streaming platform has bought the project. The series remains in early development.
Jackson's track record in television is the story G-Unit is built on. He executive produced the Power franchise at Starz — the mothership series, in which he also played Kanan Stark, plus three spinoffs: Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Power Book IV: Force. Two further Power titles are on the way: Power: Origins and Power: Legacy. The G-Unit slate also includes the Starz crime drama BMF, the upcoming Starz drama Fightland, and The Accomplice at Peacock, with Taraji P. Henson attached to star.
Jackson's television work has not been limited to scripted drama. In September 2024, he set a docuseries about Sean "Diddy" Combs's sexual assault allegations at Netflix, produced by G-Unit. He had previously confirmed, in December 2023, that proceeds G-Unit Film & Television receives from that documentary would go to victims.
For the Payday adaptation, Jackson is represented by IAG, AKR Public Relations, and attorney Stephen J. Savva.
What gives the project its commercial logic is the collision of two proven audiences. Payday is a franchise built on players who have spent over a decade planning virtual heists together; Power built a loyal viewership across multiple spinoffs by giving that same crime-and-betrayal genre a long runway. Jackson's name on the call sheet signals to buyers that the production has a producer who knows how to keep a scripted crime series on air season after season — and a studio, Starbreeze, whose intellectual property already has a global footprint.
Whether a streamer or network bites, and who writes the scripts, will determine whether the series moves from development to a real order. For now, it is a project on paper with a strong producing team and a well-known brand attached, and nothing more.
