2pac Biopic Synopsis Revealed!

A film I've long awaited an official synopsis or casting announcement for has finally revealed more in depth information on the synopsis and character breakdowns. Our Friends over at Moviehole have the exclusive scoop on what to expect in the Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Brooklyns Finest) directed bio pic for the late rapper Tupac Shakur's bio pic.

The former music video director said he’s interested in finding an unknown actor to play the iconic hip-hop legend.

“That’s the goal, I want to discover someone new,” he revealed. “I want to discover a lot of new people if I can. Obviously I’m going to have to put some people in it that you know, just because actors have different skills. I want to go to the streets and find him anywhere he might be in the world.”

The original intent was to begin shooting last September, but that came and went with nothing new announced or any movement on the project. They're now officially gearing up for an April start in Los Angeles. I wonder if this means casting is already complete or close to being completed and a press release is imminent.

The official synopsis :

“The rise and fall of TUPAC SHAKUR is chronicled, from his days attending the Baltimore School of the Arts as a teenager, to his decision to leave his mother’s dead-end life behind and embrace the Thug Life in California, to his wild success as a rapper and his dangerous war against the East Coast scene. A true poet who was waylaid by fame’s trappings, his earliest ambition was to change the world and make a difference in people’s lives, and before his tragic murder in Las Vegas in 1996, that’s exactly what 2Pac did…”

Stephen J. Rivele, one of two screenwriters hired to write the film spoke to Vulture back in August about the direction the project would be taking:

"This is the story of an artist whose character is at odds with his medium. He was a really sensitive, very romantic, talented young poet who also could sing, dance, and act. But the realities [of the hip-hop record business] were that he had to create this persona of the gangster,"

"He was obviously very angry, and had been subjected to a great deal of violence at home, in the streets and in prison. But he 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 his life — essentially a Romantic vision — and had set up a new label, and a new production company to create it. He saw the contradiction between the musical persona of 'Thug Life,' and his essential nature as a gentle, sensitive person. And that was partly responsible for his murder: He was not a gangster, but the people around him were. They saw he was going to leave, that they were going to lose him, and so I think they decided to kill him."