Eminem to fulfill his cowboy dreams

[KiwiCoromandel]

Eminem is to become a cowboy. The rapper has signed up to star in the big screen remake of classic US TV show Have Gun Will Travel.

Hollywood bosses are hoping the semi-retired star can repeat the critical and box office success he had with his 2002 semi-biopic 8 Mile.

According to America's Variety newspaper, Eminem will play a modern version of the show's hero, Paladin - a professional gunfighter who works as a hired killer in post-Civil War America.

Richard Boone played the lead role in the TV series - which ran from 1957 until 1963 - and his character left a trademark calling card featuring the figure of a white chess knight and the words "Have Gun Will Travel. Wire Paladin, San Francisco."

Producers are believed to be considering relocating the movie's setting to Detroit - Eminem's hometown - and are even considering asking the star to provide a number of songs for the soundtrack.

The film will see the rapper come out of semi-retirement. The hip-hop star - real name Marshall Mathers III - announced he was taking time out last year and went into rehab after getting addicted to sleeping pills.

In that time Eminem also re-married, and split from, estranged wife Kim Mathers, and suffered the loss of his best man, rapper Proof, who was shot dead after a bar brawl.

source:Bang! Showbiz

[Shawn]

Eminem is to become a cowboy. The rapper has signed up to star in the big screen remake of classic US TV show Have Gun Will Travel.

Hollywood bosses are hoping the semi-retired star can repeat the critical and box office success he had with his 2002 semi-biopic 8 Mile.

Doesn't make a lick of sense.

[Excrement_Cranium]

I'd rather see this than the K-fed movie.

[Wolfie]

Either case I rather be shot that watch that one.

[method77]

Yep. Cowboys were known for their "I'm a thug and I fuck hoes" tatoos

Go retire man. Makes us forget of your annoying little squeeky voice