Variety announced in May of that year that Dana Delany would play a lead female role. He will star as the 'son of a slain NYPD officer who joins the force and welcomed by his father’s former partner into the ranks of his vice crime task force - and on to a team of rogue Gotham cops.' A month later, Deadline reported that Robert De Niro and Forest Whitaker had joined the film. In February 2011, Variety announced that 50 Cent will play a lead role in the film.
After graduating, he's taken under the wing of his father's former partner, Captain Joe Sarcone, who invites him to join the Street Vice Crime Task Force. With his two best friends, Jonas Maldonado, the son of a slain NYPD officer, joins the police academy. It had a limited release in very few in Los Angeles and New York on Augwith a simultaneous VOD release and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 21, 2012. Freelancers is a 2012 direct-to-video crime-drama film directed by Jessy Terrero, written by L.Philippe Casseus and stars 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker, and Robert De Niro.