Beginning with the aforementioned Glitter, and going on to the utter failure of On the Line, starring Lance Bass and Joey Fatone of the boy band 'N Sync, the prospects for such films looked dismal until Mandy Moore found success with A Walk to Remember and Britney Spears' Crossroads had a strong showing. Basinger plays the rapper's mother, and is nearly 20 years his senior.Īll kidding aside, 8 Mile is the latest in a series of recent projects to involve high-profile recording artists. There have been numerous rumors floating around the set that Eminem and co-star Kim Basinger are involved in a little romantic fling.
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Screenwriter Scott Silver's only other major scripting credit is for the abysmal Mod Squad.
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Grazer has spoken of his very favorable impressions of Eminem's intensity and maturity in delivering his performance, and claims that Hanson is creating an enthralling film that is full of life. Nearly everything producer Brian Grazer touches turns to gold these days, with his most recent successes being Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and the coup de grâce, the Academy Award® winning A Beautiful Mind. Hanson is also the director of the painfully unfunny television series Greg the Bunny, which can currently be seen on Fox.
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He followed that fine project by taking on Wonder Boys, another movie that is regarded highly by critics and fans alike. It was the best decision I ever made.An Eminem-starring vehicle about an angry young man who tries to break away from his bleak circumstances in a rough Detroit neighborhood via his rap music, 8 Mile is vaguely reminiscent of another ostensibly-fictionalized tale that featured a big musical star, Mariah Carey's Glitter.Ĩ Mile is helmed by Curtis Hanson, who won an Oscar® for the screenplay of LA Confidential, in addition to being nominated as the film's director.
Phifer immediately took a liking to the hip-hop star and agreed to play his best friend in the film, adding, "This cat (Eminem) became my man so fast that I was like, 'This is gonna be dope.' And when I met all the rest of the guys, I was all in. But when I read it, I thought, Oh, this is kinda slick! They had me go to Detroit to see if me and Em (Eminem) was going to have chemistry." "I hadn't read the script yet, and they were so hush-hush about the script that I had to sit and read it in (director) Curtis (Hanson's) office because they weren't releasing it. 'I ain't getting on no plane! I'm staying here and I'm gonna be a doctor, goddamn it!' They was like, ' Ok, we want you to fly to Detroit.' It was like, September 13.
He tells Vibe magazine, "I was due to start Er and 9/11 had just happened. Phifer had no intention of stepping foot on a jet in the wake of the disaster, and admits he was happy staying put in Los Angeles where he was shooting medical drama Er. The actor was invited to join the project shortly after two hijacked airplanes crashed into the Twin Towers at New York's World Trade Center in 2001, while a third slammed into the Pentagon in Virginia and a fourth crash landed in Pennsylvania. Mekhi Phifer initially turned down Eminem's movie 8 Mile because he was offered the role two days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and was too terrified to fly to the set.