Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic China Achebe might have not reacted when US hip hop/neo soul band The Roots names their album 'Things Fall Apart' back in 1999, however the author has come out to stop rapper 50 Cent from titling his forthcoming movie with the same name.



Reports say that 50 Cent real names Curtis Jackson tried getting the producers to pay Achebe who wrote the novel with the same name 'Things Fall Apart' in 1958, 17 years before 50 cent was born, a sum of $1M (One Million Dollars) to keep the name for the new Mario Van Peebles film, but Achebe declined.



'The novel with the said title was initially produced in 1958 (that is 17 years before rapper 50 Cent was born), listed as the mostly read book in modern African literature, and won't be sold for even 1 Billion Dollars', Achebe's reps stated in a response.



50 Cent has eventually altered the name change. The movie will now be called 'All Things Fall Apart' and will be opening at the Urbanworld Film Festival on September 18.



50 cent started the film production companies G-Unit Films in 2007 and Cheetah Vision in 2008.



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