50 Cent has been cast in the new film “Things Fall Apart.” The movie also stars Lynn Whitfield, Comedian Mike P and Mario Van Peebles who serves as director.

The movie centers around a star football running back, played by 50 Cent, who faces a personal tragedy as well as his own mortality while in his senior year in college. The superstar rapper/actor will lose 60 pounds to play the role, as the character succumbs to cancer during his high school senoir year. It will be real interesting to see 50 lose all that muscle. “Things Fall Apart” will begin shooting in May.

The rapper is making quite a name for himself in Hollywood appearing in “Get Rich or Die Tryin,” “Righteous Kill” and Joel Schumacher’s “Twelve,” which premiered at the Sundance fest.