One step closer to that “California Love”
While a movie about the life of Tupac Shakur leading up to his death in 1996 is still in pre-production stages, the one name still attached to the project is director Antoine Fuqua and he’s given some small updates on its development. Fuqua stated that a sufficient script was still needed in order to move forward, as funding wise it’s good to go, yet film-centric blogs have been reporting that possibly the script-writing honor has gone from Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson (who co-wrote the screenplay Ali) to Michael Starrbury (whose last credit is the indie film The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete).
The biopic has been stalled for some time now with Fuqua admitting that “It was announced too soon”, but that it’ll still be focused on “the last few days, that trip from LA to Las Vegas”, and where his head was during that journey”.
No actors have earned the role of the complex rapper as well, as a open-call was held in 2011, but casting has met some creative complications as well. Fuqua is said to still be adamant about hiring quite a few unknowns for the film.
–C. Shardae Jobson (@lavishrebellion)
