An authorized Tupac Shakur documentary is underway and 12 Years A Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen has been the person appointed to direct. According to Deadline, the project is being made with the blessings of Tupac’s Estate and Amaru Entertainment.
‘Pac’s Estate trustee Tom Whalley will co-produce the film along with Jayson Jackson and White Horse Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair. Shakur’s aunt, Gloria Cox, will also serve as an executive producer for the film.
The film is something that his mother, Afeni Shakur, wanted to make happen before she passed away in 2016 through the company that officially handles all of her sons’ posthumous projects, Amaru Entertainment.
Both Interscope and Universal Publishing Group will be involved with the film, giving McQueen access to Tupac’s musical catalog.
“I am extremely moved and excited to be exploring the life and times of this legendary artist,” McQueen exclusively tells the publication. “I attended NYU film school in 1993 and can remember the unfolding Hip Hop world and mine overlapping with Tupac’s through a mutual friend in a small way. Few, if any shined brighter than Tupac Shakur. I look forward to working closely with his family to tell the unvarnished story of this talented man.”
Tupac’s remarkable career and life has been the source of many film documentaries throughout the years following his untimely and still unresolved death in 1996. Nick Broomfield’s 2002 documentary Biggie and Tupac and RJ Bond’s 2007 documentary Tupac: Assassination are just a few of those films that invited fans into the intimate life of ‘Pac cinematically.
The unauthorized biopic All Eyez On Me is the next Tupac film in line to hit the big screen and is slated to debut this summer.
In April, Tupac became the first solo Hip Hop act to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
DAYUM!…..so many films about Tupac coming out. I can barely keep up. I bet Suge is gonna come out with his own doc titled : RIDIN’ SHOTGUN. lol
He was only a mediocre rapper. So why don’t everybody get off his dick
Pac is most overrated rapper ever. A lot of his songs sound the same and are quanity over quality. Always thug this, thug that… Boring. If he would have lived now he would be a typical strugglin 90 rapper with one classic albumMATW and one or two good albums. For all you stans dont react with go listen to drake oyoung thug
WTF why u hate Pac so much?
Drake and Kendrick fanboys here or what.
Pac was the biggest rap influence EVA.
NEED MORE FROM PAC
he hasn’t dropped a record in a minute smdh
how many of these do we really need?
I do not see another 2pac documentary topping Resurrection.
Tupac DESERVES a proper documentary, dammit!
I bet most of these haters were born in 2000-2005
Echoing what they heard Flex saying…
Oh well we have never heard this story before! Maybe another biggie documentary too? We haven’t seen enough of those. U know another fresh innovative story? Why don’t they make a movie about Pablo Escobar. I don’t think they’ve ever done that before have they? How many tupac documentaries do we really need? Jesus christ.
This shit is getting stupid. Somebody deserves to get popped in the head at this point. They are definitely just robbing his grave now. As my man below said, NOTHING is topping 2Pac Resurrection. That was done with his mother’s blessing and full participation with 2Pac’s voice as the narrator all the way through. There’s nothing more that can be added. They hustling. That’s why the omitted 2Pac Resurrection from the list of movies in the press release, and made sure to say “unauthorized” regarding the movie coming out next month. This shit is disgusting.
when they gonna release a New Pac’ Album, Pac’s Life was 11 Years ago, about time we get a New one already, let Eminem Produce it, i loved Ghetto Gospel ???
Eminem made that album suck balls. He needs to stick to rapping instead of producing..
We know. You have an article about it every. single. day. When it comes out, it comes out at this point.
How the fXX would u know about pac..u ether young and stupid or just stupid..stick 2 Nigerian rap..
Let me guess you’re into Young Thug aka Young Tranny huh ? Bitch boy STFU.
You clearly don’t know shit about true hip hop and rap.
Go back to listenin’ to your mumble shit.
will this documentary finally tell us the truth about how Cheddar Bob here shot his testicle off at the Quad Studios back in ’94