FOREST WHITAKER! WANTS FIDDY! AS A SON!

// October 8th, 2009 // Hott News

momentarily - things are being worked out!

“We’re still figuring out what we’re going to do”

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FOREST WHITAKER wants 50 CENT to be his son — in front of the camera, that is. The Oscar-winning actor is negotiating a deal to play the rapper-turned-actor’s pop in the adaptation of the 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The actor is still talking to the movie bosses about the possibility, but is hopeful the two can become onscreen family.

He told MTV News: “We’re still figuring out what we’re going to do, if I am going to be doing that or not. If I end up doing it, I would be playing Jekyll and he would be playing Hyde. It’s a father-son kind of relationship. It’s also an interesting script because we are dealing with similar things. Jekyll has a lot of issues and problems personally. Hidden passions, hidden perversions, and it is acted out by 50.”

Jekyll and Hyde will closely follow the original storyline, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, which focuses on troubled Dr. Jekyll’s battle with right and wrong. After drinking a chemical potion, a younger and crueler version of the medic, Mr. Hyde, emerges. Forest added:

Abel Ferrara directs it. It would be very classic. They just turned in a new draft. It’s based on the book really strongly. It will be interesting to play Jekyll.