All Eyez On Me director Benny Boom and producer L.T. Hutton showed up to The Breakfast Club this week to discuss the making of the highly anticipated Tupac biopic set to hit theaters June 16 and revealed why it never worked out with John Singleton as the director.
The movie was originally supposed to be directed by Singleton with the backing of Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, but it didn’t exactly work out that way. Afeni ended up countersuing the film’s production company, Morgan Creek, for $10 million in 2009 over the rights to her late son’s music.
Singleton was out and Hutton and Benny Boom were in and for the sake of the movie’s integrity, the former Death Row collaborator explains. He says that Singleton and Pac were not on good terms before he died and that the Baby Boy director wanted to include too many sex scenes, including one that involved his mom in a threesome and another scene that showed Pac getting raped in jail.
“There were a multitude of things that he wanted to do that just weren’t flattering to Tupac himself,” Hutton says. “It was almost like, ‘What are you doing? You knew what was going on, and now you want to defame the guy.’ Not on my watch.”
Watch the full interview below.
Glad Benny Boom got this done he is talented, LT Hutton is dope also especially as a producer, Hopefully L.T can get a Bone thugs or Wu tang Bio pic done I know he is close to the BTNH camp.
Are you kidding me? Go look at his filmography…It’s a shame that they didn’t get a respectable director for a film about Tupac (such as Singleton), as we have all been waiting so long for this biopic and now I can say with confidence it will be mediocre at best.
true that i guess being real in movies aint allowed anymore thats why they axed john and took a dude whose known for music videos to hold a biopic of one of the greatest rappers of all time to be their yes man coz he aint gon have no ego and shit very sad in hollywood.but all in all atleast a movie of pac was made before a beatles movie lol
Hell yeah! That would be a dope movie about BTNH. It pissed me off that they wasn’t in Straight outta Compton just mentioned. I’ve been a big fan of BTNH since “Creeping on Tha come up”, and also a big fan of Eazy since his first solo album and N.W.A album “And the posse”.
Singleton is not a stupid….back when pac went to jail in about 1994 there was some rumors that pac had been assaulted…and I got to believe that John Singleton would not just put that in his movie for no reason…
Only person said that dumb shit was Wendy Williams.
Hate is not good for your health. It wears on your peace of mind ,body and soul.
Same goes for not putting in Dre beating women in Straight Outta Compton and not putting in Method Man/Redman’s sex together in a future Wu movie….
lol .. John Singleton still mad at Pac over the whole Poetic Justice incidents .. SMH .. dude need to get over that ..
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It’s not a wonder that Singleton would have tried some shit like that since he’s one of the dudes who is jumped all the way in on being gay in Hollywood, which is well known and was also one of the reasons him and Pac fell out since he saw the black actors and behind the scenes people who assimilated to that shit as suckers.
This article is giving credibility to rumors where no credible evidence exists
Never speak bad about the dead John Boy ,sad you would stoop so low to put out rumors and lies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If that true why woukd John Singleton have afeni blessing and not L.T Hutton. Some yall need to read the court documents.
He had her blessing at first UNTIL his actions came to light.
I wouldn’t want my name drug through the mud dead or alive. I’m glad they axed John Singleton because the TRUTH can be told with dignity. We all know what go on in jails across America and that gay ritual shut isn’t just in Hollywood. People should be ashamed to affiliate themselves with negative things against their own people. Tupac tried to wake these sleepers up!
‘ just weren’t flattering to Tupac ‘ . It’s a biography. It’s supposed to show the good AND bad to give his life story balance . Otherwise it’s just hearts and flowers bull.
Exactly would Ray have been good if they didn’t show his drug addiction.
Excellent interview… ???
i love hip hop end i love 2pac Shakur’s
Its common knowledge that LeSane Perish Crooks or Tupac Shakur or any of his other fake ZOG names was not only never assaulted in prison but was never even in prison.
Everything about 2pac is a CointelPro psy-op designed to create thug life and criminality in the youth, specifically the already hopeless black sect of america