Tupac Shakur Biopic Script Details Revealed

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I guess after seeing the Success of Biggies movie a Pac movie had to be made. The biopic for late rapper Tupac Shakur is beginning to take shape as it has now been revealed two Oscar-nominated screenwriters will be attached to the upcoming project.
Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson (Ali, Nixon) have just been hired to write the Tupac Shakur biopic, which means the Antoine Fuqua-directed film could begin shooting by mid-November. (No cast yet; Fuqua is looking for an unknown to play the late rapper.) While the writing partners are known for adapting true lives and stories — they also worked on the Moneyball script, and an upcoming Jackie Robinson story — Wilkinson tells Vulture that the key to this script is an approach that “is not in any way biopic-y.” That’s a big change in direction for the project. An initial draft written by Steven Bagatourian (2005’s American Gun) was largely documentary in style, simply laying out the facts of the slain rapper-poet-actor’s brief 25-year life. But Wilkinson says that their script will center on the last day of Tupac’s life, flashing back to show the final four years leading up to it. (NY Mag)

Training Day and Brooklyn’s Finest director Antoine Fuqua is expected to direct the project.