From Ananova.com 14:29 Thursday 17th July 2003
Stallone working on film about Biggie and Tupac
Sylvester Stallone is working on a film about the deaths of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur.
The film will go into the alleged LA Police Department corruption scandal that lurks beneath the story.
Stallone says he’ll direct and star in the film, which he’s provisionally calling Thugz Lives, reports Radio 1.
It will centre on the theory that Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur were killed as part of a gang-police-rap power triangle.
He says most of the cast will be from the hip-hop community, and he realises the soundtrack’s going to be crucial to the film.
Stallone says: “The hip-hop soundtrack would push the story along also.”
“It’s gonna conjure up memories, because we have to use Tupac, Biggie, you have to use music from that era, and then kind of segue into new stuff, but it’s got to have the feel of stuff from ’97, so it’s more old skool.”
Story filed: 14:29 Thursday 17th July 2003
I think that “Thugz LIves” might be an even better title than “Rampart Scandal.”
– Craig Zablo