Sixteen years after Tupac Shakur wrote his first and only screenplay, his mother Afeni Shakur is hoping to bring the script to the big screen. During 2Pac’s 11-month incarceration in 1995, he’d written a story called Live 2 Tell, which will go into production in 2012.
Preston Holmes and Ivan Juzang’s NStar Studios will spearhead the production with Afeni Shakur acting as executive producer. All three also worked together to produce the 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection. According to Variety, “Hustle and Flow” producer Dwight Williams will also join the production team.
“[2Pac] was a genius, and the net of it is, he was from this community, he knew the struggles these young people were dealing with,” Juzang told Variety. “And he’s able to talk to young people in 2011, 2012, the same way he was able to talk to young people in 1995.”
Not much of the project has been revealed, but the film will tell the story of a young drug dealer struggling to leave an unlawful life. The budget for the movie is $11 million.
The film will go into production next year, but does not have an official release date.
Swag. me. THE FUCK. OUT
Low budget bullshit… but its cool to even get a film made… its no way we can see his vision for it now tho
Get the fuck outta here Hustle and Flow was made for less than 2 million.
Shut the fuck up with that negative nonsense.
Hustle & flow was made with a budget of $8,000,000 in the year 2004 . Taking into account inflation that number would easily exceed the 11 mill set out for this movie.
Kevin smith filmed “Red State” for 4 million.
If they don’t blow the budget on advertising they could really make a dope movie.
Filming in New York would be real expensive though.
should be good.
Tupac is still shining!
I remember there were rumors that Derek Luke was going to play the lead role in this movie.
I hope they drop some original Pac material with the movie as well, I always wondered if Pac would’ve ever made a better album than Makaveli The 7 Day Theory….Guess we’ll never know.
i’d consider me against the world to be as good if not better
it already sounds good…
11$ million
Enough to allow me to retire for the rest of my life but barely enough to make a competent movie, low-budget. Good luck to the production team.