Robert De Niro to star in FREELANCERS, Forest Whitaker in talks to join

Robert De Niro is set to star in Freelancers, a new cop drama from director Jessy Terrero. Forest Whitaker is currently negotiating to join the film that already has Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson. Filming is set to begin production in New Orleans on April 18 based on a script from Philippe Casseus. Jackson plays "the son of a slain NYPD officer who, with his two best friends, joins the Police Academy. After graduating, he's taken under the wing of his father's former partner Captain Vic Sarcone (De Niro) in the ranks of Sarcone's Street Vice Crime Task Force and he becomes part of Scarcone's rogue task force." 

Freelancers is produced by Randall Emmett, Jackson, and George Furla. Rick Jackson, Jeff Rice, Fred Malmberg and Daniel Wagner are serving as excecutive producers. I liked De Niro in Limitless, but I hope that this film will get him back to being the awesome character actor that he is. 

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