Brooklyn Finest's Director Antoine Fuqua to Direct Tupac Shakur Biopic

In a recent interview with U.K.'s Digital Spy, director Antoine Fuqua mentioned that his next film will be a biopic on slain rap legend Tupac Shakur. Morgan Creek Productions will produce the film, with shooting to start in September.

"It looks like we're doing Tupac Shakur's movie next in September, that's what I've been starting up and working on now," he said. "I've been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and Jim Robinson. I just got the green-light from him and we're going in September. I've just started to prep that."

At the present there is no actor listed yet to play Shakur. Fuqua has made it known that he hopes to find an unknown actor to portray the iconic hip-hop star, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.

"That's the goal, I want to discover someone new," he explained. "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."

As an actor, Tupac appeared in notable films such as Juice, Poetic Justice, and Above the Rim.  In 2009's Notorious,' the biopic on Christopher "Notorious B.I.G" Wallace, actor Anthony Mackie played the role of Tupac.
 
I like the idea of an unknown to play Tupac. It will give us an opportunity to see what talent is out there. Will be keeping my eyes and ears open as we begin to hear more about this film.

Brooklyn's Finest vs. New Jack City vs. Deep Cover

Now the question was brought to my attention whether Antoine Fuqua's newest flick Brooklyn's Finest will be able to be a success. Some see this as a modern day mix of New Jack City and Deep Cover all in one. As I pondered this question I realized that both of the prior films came out in 1991 and 1992, so as we fast forward to 2010 I think its only appropriate that we get a little remix.

With Deep Cover, you have a story of a cop (Laurence Fishburne) who has been working all his life to expunge the memory and life of his dope-addict father. But then at the same time he gets tangled up in the drug trade game, that he may never get loose. And with New Jack City, the highlight of this movie is a rising drug-dealer and crime lord who is pretty much on everybody's hitlist, especially to one particular detective. The slight difference is the emotion that is involved from each of its main characters. Now we get to Brooklyn's Finest, with this film we get a chance to see three different, yet similar stories that really all tie into one. In essence, this film takes a little bit of each film hoping to make it bigger and better!!

In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation in Brooklyn's Finest. The film captures the volatile and deadly world of one of New York's most dangerous precints through the eyes of the men and women pledged to protect and serve, as they face the wrenching choices that make them Brooklyn's Finest.



One is on pins and needles seeing how this movie is going to play out!! Plus the more and more I I think about it, I remember Fuqua's film Training Day, and I can't help but think that ... damn that was a good movie!!

We shall see...