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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“BMF” used “the same technology” that Martin Scorsese used in “The Irishman” in order to turn Marshall Mathers aka Eminem back in time for the seventh episode of the upcoming Starz drama.Executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson revealed that tidbit during the series’ Television Critics Assn. press tour panel on Aug.

Eminem is set to appear in an episode of the new 50 Cent-produced TV drama ‘BMF’, which is based on the true story of Detroit gangsters Demetrius and Terry Flenory, heads of the so called Black Mafia Family.The rapper is set to play Richard Wershe Jr – aka White Boy Rick – who between the ages of fourteen and sixteen acted as an FBI informant, helping to secure 20 convictions of gang members. Exactly how Eminem’s portrayal of Wershe will feature in the new TV show isn’t clear.

Eminem will portray FBI informant Richard Wershe Jr. – aka White Boy Rick – in 50 Cent‘s forthcoming Starz drama series BMF (Black Mafia Family).Wershe was an FBI informant as a teenager in the mid-1980s, having infiltrated a Detroit gang.

DETROIT -- A Detroit-area man whose decades in prison for drug dealing and work as an informant inspired the movie “White Boy Rick” filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking $100 million, claiming he was coerced into assisting police while just a helpless teenager.Richard Wershe Jr., 52, served roughly 30 years in prison in Michigan before his release in 2017, followed by a few more years in a Florida prison for an unrelated crime.Wershe's lawsuit in federal court in Detroit alleges that his troubles in