Sixteen years after Tupac Shakur wrote his first and only screenplay the producers of “Tupac: Resurrection” are hoping to bring the script to the big screen next year with Afeni Shakur on board.
Preston Holmes and Ivan Juzang’s NStar Studios will lead the production with Afeni Shakur acting as executive producer. All three also worked together to produce the 2003 hit documentary “Tupac: Resurrection”
While 2Pac was serving his 11-month sentence in 1995, he wrote a screenplay called “Live 2 Tell” the story of a young drug dealer struggling to leave an unlawful life of crime. According to Variety, “Hustle and Flow” producer Dwight Williams will also join the production team to bring Pac’s screenplay to the big screen.
Not much of the project has been revealed but we know that the film will go into production next year, but does not have an official release date and has a budget of $11 million.
Speaking to Variety, producer Ivan Juzang says:
“2Pac was a genius, and the net of it is, he was from this community, he knew the struggles these young people were dealing with,” Juzang told Variety. “And he’s able to talk to young people in 2011, 2012, the same way he was able to talk to young people in 1995.”
