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In the News
( 4 stories between 18th March 2009 and 6th May 2011 )Stranger Than Fiction Friday: Tupac’s Screenplay Produced
May, 6 2011
While Tupac Shakur was serving an 11-month sentence in 1995, he apparently wrote a screenplay which is going into production early next year. The $11M project has the title “Live 2 Tell” and has been acquired by Preston Holmes and Ivan Juzang’s NStar Studios.
Holmes collaborated with Shakur’s mother, Aleni, on the 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection. “Live 2 Tell” will be co-produced by Hustle and Flow’s Dwight Williams.
Shakur first got a taste for acting when he starred in John Singleton’s Poetic Justice beside Janet Jackson in 1993.
Holmes reportedly reached out to Shakur about the script while the rapper was still serving his sentence at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY.
The script tells the story of a teenage drug kingpin and his efforts to leave behind the world of crime.
Shakur was murdered in 1996.
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2Pac Follows Biggie Onto Big Screen
Aug, 30 2010
The long-touted 2Pac movie is finally about to move into production, after Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson (Ali, Nixon) were hired to write it. There’s no cast yet, but Antoine Fuque will direct, and shooting may start as early as November.
“I knew nothing about [2Pac]” Rivele confessed to New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, but he’s been researching his life for the “not in any way biopic-y” movie. ""He was a really sensitive, very romantic, talented young poet who also could sing, dance, and act. But the realities [of the hip-hop business] were that he had to create this persona of the gangster."
The film is expected to focus on 2Pac’s final day before his murder in Las Vegas in 1996, with flashbacks to events before it. The film-makers will not make any claims about the unsolved murder, but instead want to show the circumstances around it. “He saw the contradiction between the musical persona of 'Thug Life,' and his essential nature as a gentle, sensitive person,” Rivele said. “And that was partly responsible for his murder: He was not a gangster, but the people around him were.”
2Pac
Sep, 28 2009
Tupac’s legacy continues long after his death, with news that his mother has recently donated a collection of the rapper’s writing to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Atlanta University Center. Tupac died following a drive-by shooting in 1996, but although he was only 25 at the time, he had already secured his status as a legendary rapper and cultural icon. Now, well over a decade after his death, his work continues to influence the hip hop scene and, it seems, the academic community. Library Director and CEO, Loretta Parham, confirmed the library’s position on the importance of Tupac: "Mr. Shakur was a multi-dimensional artist who helped define a musical genre, and as the academic library serving four institutions of higher learning, it is our mission, as well as a great privilege, to help promote scholarship and research of his work, and the mechanics of his creative process and the hip hop culture." In addition to the Woodruff Library collection, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation has also created the Tupac Shakur Secondary School Curriculum, which will enable 7-12th grade students to avail themselves of Tupac study materials for their fine arts, history and language courses.
