The deal is being ironed out for the “Training Day” director to helm the upcoming boxing film “Southpaw”. Earlier today MTV News reported that Eminem will be making his long-awaited return to the big screen as the leading role in the movie.
The film, which has already been picked up by DreamWorks, will find the Detroit rapper playing a welterweight boxer whose career is cut short by personal tragedy. Kurt Sutter, the film’s screenwriter, said that the film “carries a metaphorical relevance to the rapper’s own much-publicized trials and tribulations”. Sutter said “I took meetings with Marshall’s producing partners over the past seven years, looking for something to do together,”.
“I know he’s very selective and doesn’t do a lot. But he shared so much of his personal struggle in this raw and very honest album Recovery, one that I connected with on a lot of levels. He is very interested in the boxing genre, and it seemed like an apt metaphor, because his own life has been a brawl.” Sutter also added that, “We are doing a metaphorical narrative of the second chapter of his life. He’ll play a world-champion boxer who really hits a hard bottom and has to fight to win back his life for his young daughter. At its core, this is a retelling of his struggles over the last five years of his life, using the boxing analogy…I love that the title refers to Marshall being a lefty, which is to boxing what a white rapper is to Hip Hop; dangerous, unwanted and completely unorthodox. It’s a much harder road for a southpaw than a right-handed boxer.”
According to reports, the first draft Sutter’s script for Southpaw will be completed by February and filming should early 2013.
