{"id":19769,"date":"2025-08-15T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/the-idea-was-for-a-black-james-bond-the-making-of-50-cent-bulletproof\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:38:05","slug":"the-idea-was-for-a-black-james-bond-the-making-of-50-cent-bulletproof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/the-idea-was-for-a-black-james-bond-the-making-of-50-cent-bulletproof\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The idea was for a Black James Bond\u2019: the making of 50 Cent: Bulletproof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game\u2019s launch 20 years ago coincided with the rapper\u2019s meteoric success with his album The Massacre. Here, the team that made the shooter reflect on how it all happened <\/p>\n<p>The rapper 50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson) was inescapable back in 2005. There wasn\u2019t a British classroom without a teenager wearing Jackson\u2019s G-Unit clothing, while his catchy hits Candy Shop and In Da Club dominated the radio. The backstory of this Queens-born New Yorker \u2013 how he survived being shot nine times only to become one of the world\u2019s biggest rappers \u2013 also made for compelling lore.<\/p>\n<p>That year, 50 Cent sold more than a million copies in one week with his sophomore studio album, The Massacre. In a bid to cash in on this superstardom, his label Interscope Records planned a twin strategy: a Hollywood biopic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2006\/jan\/20\/3\">Get Rich or Die Tryin\u2019<\/a>) and a licensed video game, 50 Cent: Bulletproof \u2013 both to be released by November 2005. \u201cI think the general public are going to be blown away by my game,\u201d 50 Cent told the website IGN. \u201cIt feels more like an action film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/aug\/15\/the-idea-was-for-a-black-james-bond-the-making-of-50-cent-bulletproof\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e78599cf362f6d2e6de599a02e4d2e14867b1e36\/0_84_2859_2287\/master\/2859.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4e8ca00fe79115b78082315eb6e1ca5c\" title=\"\u2018The idea was for a Black James Bond\u2019: the making of 50 Cent: Bulletproof\" \/>The game\u2019s launch 20 years ago coincided with the rapper\u2019s meteoric success with his album The Massacre. Here, the team that made the shooter reflect on how it all happened<br \/>\nThe rapper 50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson) was inescapable back in 2005. There wasn\u2019t a British classroom without a teenager wearing Jackson\u2019s G-Unit clothing, while his catchy hits Candy Shop and In Da Club dominated the radio. The backstory of this Queens-born New Yorker \u2013 how he survived being shot nine times only to become one of the world\u2019s biggest rappers \u2013 also made for compelling lore.<br \/>\nThat year, 50 Cent sold more than a million copies in one week with his sophomore studio album, The Massacre. In a bid to cash in on this superstardom, his label Interscope Records planned a twin strategy: a Hollywood biopic (Get Rich or Die Tryin\u2019) and a licensed video game, 50 Cent: Bulletproof \u2013 both to be released by November 2005. \u201cI think the general public are going to be blown away by my game,\u201d 50 Cent told the website IGN. \u201cIt feels more like an action film.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game\u2019s launch 20 years ago coincided with the rapper\u2019s meteoric success with his album The Massacre. Here, the team that made the shooter reflect on how it all happened The rapper 50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson) was inescapable back in 2005. There wasn\u2019t a British classroom without a teenager wearing Jackson\u2019s G-Unit clothing, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/the-idea-was-for-a-black-james-bond-the-making-of-50-cent-bulletproof\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The idea was for a Black James Bond\u2019: the making of 50 Cent: Bulletproof<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}