Hip hop star 50 Cent will star alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in their upcoming movie Righteous Kill, according to reports.

The Hollywood Reporter claims the rapper is in talks to play a drug dealer in the crime thriller about two detectives tracking a mass murderer.

It will be the first time the artist will be seen in a film since he starred in Get Rich or Die Tryin' in 2005, based on his life as a former drug dealer.

Director Jon Avnet is set to manage the $60 million project, which will see Pacino and De Niro act alongside each other for the first time since 1995 film Heat.