Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has joined an amazing cast for Alex de Rakoff’s London gangland movie “Dead Man Running,” which began shooting Wednesday, November 19th. Jackson joins a cast that includes Tamer Hassan, Danny Dyer, Brenda Blethyn and Monet Mazur.The rapper will play a ruthless loan shark in the movie, which details a criminal world as hard hit by the recession as Wall Street. Set in London, the directors script centers on an ex-con trying to go straight who is given 24 hours to raise 100,000 pounds ($150,000) to pay off Jackson’s loan shark or become a dead man running. The mission takes him from the dog tracks of East London to the underground drug scene of rural Manchester as they try every trick and scam in the book to get the cash before it’s too late.

[Synopsis/Source: HollywoodReporter.com]