The long-gestating movie Tupac Shakur May finally begin production this November, Now That director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) has Brought on Oscar-nominated Stephen J. Screenwriters Rivele and Chris Wilkinson to pen a new script. Wilkinson tells Vulture that the film, originally Written in a documentary style, Will Not be a biopic. Instead, it will focus on Tupac’s last day, and flash back four years on the historical Preceded that still-unsolved shooting death in Las Vegas.
“I Was Just Beginning to shed That anger and look for a Purer voice … He Was in the process of Changing Himself, and Entering a new phase of historical life,” says Rivele, WHO Previously Wilkinson teamed with Ali and Nixon to script . “I saw the contradiction between the musical person of ‘Thug Life,’ and His essential nature as a gentle, sensitive person. And that was partly responsible for historical murder: He Was not a gangster, But Were the people around him.