Eminem new movie filming ‘soon,’ says rapper's former bodyguard
The “Rap God” is making it to the silver screen once again if claims of Eminem’s former bodyguard Byron “Big Naz” Williams will be proven as truthful.
In an Aug. 1, 2016 interview with Murder Master Music Show, Williams revealed that a new film is coming out about Eminem’s life story based on his book “Shady Bizzness: Life as Marshall Mathers’ Bodyguard in an Industry of Paper Gangsters.”
“I am waiting for the ink to be signed,” said Williams, who published the book in Aug. 31, 2000. “And this is the closest that I have ever been.”
Williams claimed that he got a standing ovation after pitching the story based on his book in Los Angeles two months ago.
“I had a pitch in LA about two months ago in front of top Hollywood producers in a room full of a hundred people. I got a standing ovation after I pitched it as a sequel,” he said.
Eminem films
Eminem’s last movie was the 2002 film “8 Mile,” wherein he played the role of a Caucasian young rapper who wants to make it big in the music industry despite the odds. Through this film, Eminem won the Academy Award for the Best Original Song for “Lose Yourself.”
Williams claimed that his book “Shady Bizzness” should have been the basis for the “8 Mile” movie.
“When you look at all artists, they always go back to the beginning, you can’t tell (their story) without going to the beginning.
“That part of his life cannot be told without my permission because I have copy written it. I own it,” he claimed.
Williams did not exactly disclose who he is negotiating with for the new Eminem movie. But he claimed that having a deal signed is “the closest that I’ve ever been and it’s going to happen.”
After “8 Mile,” Eminem had a cameo appearance on the 2009 film “Funny People” and 2014 movie “The People.”
Amid news of another Eminem movie filming soon, Slim Shady’s fans are still anticipating the release of his ninth studio album this year. His last album, “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” was released in 2013.
Earlier, Swifty Mcvay confirmed that Eminem will collaborate in D12’s upcoming album. Meanwhile, Eminem’s “Without Me” track is part of the chart-topping “Suicide Squad” album, which ranked first on the US Billboard and music charts in Australia and New Zealand.
WATCH: Eminem’s former bodyguard Byron “Big Naz” Williams interview on Murder Master Music Show