Film Could Begin Shooting In November
6:00AM ET August 27th, 2010
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff
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Details have emerged regarding the upcoming Tupac Shakur biopic. Fans have been clamoring for the film for years and script details have finally been released about the highly-anticipated film.

Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson have been hired to write the 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.