On April 16TH, it was announced that the upcoming motion picture TUPAC,
which will be directed by John Singleton, will be released in the US by
Open Road Films.
Open Road Films has acquired U.S. rights to Tupac, the long-awaited and highly anticipated feature on the life of Tupac Shakur directed by John Singleton.
Scripted by Jeremy Haft & Ed Gonzalez and Singleton, the film
traces Shakur’s life from growing up in East Harlem the son of activist
Black Panther Party members, to reaching superstardom as a songwriter,
hip-hop and movie star, to his vocal position as a leader in the East
Coast/West Coast rap war, to his death. Shakur, leaving a Mike Tyson
fight at the MGM Grand In Las Vegas, was murdered in a drive by
shooting, dying at age 25 in 1996. - Deadline
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