50 Cent” Scores Role As Balrog In Upcoming Street Fighter Movie

50 Cent the Queens, N.Y. rapper has been cast in the updated Street Fighter movie. 50 will be playing the role of Balrog, an American boxer who loves money and women. The rapper-actor joins a cast that includes Jason Momoa as Blanka, Noah Centineo as Ken, country singer Orville Peck as Vega, Callina Liang as Chun-Li, Andrew Koji as Ryu and WWE star Roman Reigns as Akuma. 50 has been hard at work training for the role and plans on doing his own stunts. Kitao Sakuri will be directing the film, which begins production in August in Australia. The first Street Fighter film, based on the popular Capcom video, came out in 1994 and starred 1980s action star Jean-Claude Van Damme. 50 Cent put up a post on Instagram celebrating the new role. Sharing a screenshot of the news, Fif captioned the post. "No Days off, Let’s work all roads lead to Shreveport boom," referencing his film studio in Shreveport,

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