Biopic On Tupac Shakur In The Works

Movie director Antoine Fuqua has chosen two Oscar-nominated screenwriters, Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson, to pen his biopic film dedicated to the lateTupac Shakur. Rivele and Wilkinson have received the Oscar nominations for writing the biopics Ali and Nixon.

The leading role has not been given yet to anybody. According to what Fuqua revealed, the movie will be focused more on the very last days of 2Pac’slife and to what led to his murder.

In an interview for New York Magazine, Rivele claimed that, “He was obviously very angry, and had been subjected to a great deal of violence at home, in the streets and in prison. But he was just beginning to shed that anger and look for a purer voice.”

According to Rivele, Tupac was killed because of his new look on life that did not mirror anymore his gangsta status. “He was in the process of changing himself, and entering a new phase of his life — essentially a Romantic vision — and had set up a new label, and a new production company to create it. He saw the contradiction between the musical persona ofThug Life, and his essential nature as a gentle, sensitive person. And that was partly responsible for his murder: he was not a gangster, but the people around him were. They saw he was going to leave, that they were going to lose him, and so I think they decided to kill him.”

The movie is titled Training Day and is expected to start filming this November.

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