George Lucas had Tupac Shakur in Mind for Mace Windu?

Why not the dude still releases an album every year!

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That is... An odd choice to put it nicely.

We really dodged on bullet on that one.

Because honestly, this looks like a point blank shot.

Actually there's a "Tuoac Biopic" set to start production this February. Michael B. Jordan has already auditioned for the role and from the sound of it they just want to know if he can rap. He claimed he replied that he could so he may actually get the role.

The film is also said to focus Tupac Shakur's last days from California to the night in Vegas when he was fatally shot.

Shakur's mother Alfeni Shakur will help produce the biopic alongside LT Hutton. Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) was confirmed to be the director for the film back in 2011 but it seems the script wasn't completely polished at that point.

When you think about it, this film could really gross a LOT of cash seeing that Tupac's music is still relevant to this day. There's memes everywhere of the guy and even clothing being marketed around the world. It's going to be a very inspiring film.

And Pac was a great actor. He actually wanted to quit doing music and move on to writing his own screenplays. But when he tried so many other artist called him out with inappropriate remarks which resulted in him making albums like "All Eyes on Me" and "The 7-Day Theory" after he signed a contract to put him on death row records with the owner "Suge Knight" He actually wrote his first screenplay while he was in prison. The screen play was titled "Live to Tell" which was actually supposed to be focused on his life and the way he saw it. He loved Shakespeare's literature works and felt that his life was actually an urban tragedy.

You all can say what you want but Pac really felt the roles he played. He even hated the fact that he always had to play roles which threw out false perceptions of himself of being a thug and murderer. He said himself that he would study roles of the characters he received in scripts. He would give the character a voice and mindset and throw it all out on screen.

-Juice
-Poetic Justice
-Gridlocked

We're all my favorite Pac films. The man wasn't what the media claimed him to be. Just you-tube interviews of him and see how ahead of his generation he was.

@Shadow1985

I thought so too. IDK, maybe he was considering having a character of color in the film long before Windu.

@bigshow2312

That's what I meant, I should've said "his first green-lit screenplay" And yeah I know about his Menace to Society role. But because of the feud he had with the Hughes Brothers he lost the role. He was also supposed to have starred as Jodye in "Baby-Boy". Due to the fact that he died before the films production Tyrese was given the role instead. And yeah, I'm hip to the Forest Gump role as well. It's funny how people think Pac was "just" a rapper...smh I could go on with so many other lost interviews I've listened to featuring Mr.Shakur but this IS a comic book site and I don't want to flood the post with that much information. lol

-Respect my brotha!

@Jobin

1.) Pac joined Digital Underground AFTER he got off the streets from selling dope. He stated himself that he didn't know how to sell drugs and when the drug dealers discovered he could write poetry better than he could sell drugs they told him that the streets wasn't for him and how much of a talented gift he had. So eventually he would discover digital underground through a Caucasian woman (who's name I can't remember) who took him in and became his manager. He got off the streets and put his talent to use by also making tracks with Digital Underground as well. So he just didn't "dance" with them. The dancing was part of the performances for songs they did tracks on. He wasn't a "gangster" he never robbed or murdered anyone. Listen to his albums "2pacalypse Now","Thug Life" and "Me Against the World" and tell me he was just a Gangster. He spoke out on police brutality at that time during the 90's. The women who he only referred to as "bi***es were women who would put a price on their body by degrading themselves and/or women who were out to destroy everything a man stood for by causing drama and putting them through hell. Like the woman who accused him of that false sex charge after there was no evidence to support the claim that Tupac raped her.

He said himself when he wrote most of his songs he would sometimes be the watcher,, the storyteller or things he could relate to that he's been through. So the things you may have heard from his mouth were things out of a pimps, prostitute's or gangsters mouth.

He was just keeping it real, you can't act like these things aren't out there. He wanted to make sure people were aware of the situations going on within the streets.

@TheBlackNerd
Oh your talking about Leila Steinberg. He use to do a lot with her, if you know what i mean, to have a place to stay.

damn youngns..

@TheBlackNerd

Yeah, I just hope the biopic is Tupac the artist not Makaveli. All these audition tapes I see are people impersonating his Makaveli persona. I dont want that. Give me all the faces; from 1-25. If you go back and watch his clips, every year/album he had different gestures, voice, vocab, style and perspective on life. Now that I think about it, Jordan may be our best bet.

I'll start by saying i rarely comment here, but i am on this site every day without fail! i love hearing stories, especially these "what if" stories. My life revolves around comics and hip hop, so after reading this, i guess i had to log in and comment lol

Pac was, and probably always will be one of the most honest people in the media, not just in hip hop, but in music. Period. I actually own a copy of the book "the rose that grew from concrete" which contains poems he had written, and honestly, the way he uses words to express what has happened to him or people around him, it just blows me away when i look to that book for inspiration. Tupac was portrayed pretty bad in the media, but knowing that before all the fame and craziness, he attended an arts college where he learned a number of skills (even ballet dancing!), so i also feel it would have been a completely different and interesting take on windu if he had lived and gotten the role.

@bigshow2312
@TheBlackNerd
The conversation that you two are having is really interesting, some i knew, a lot i didn't. Makes me miss what he could have been now, being as ahead of his time as he was.

Yours sincerely,
The white scottish hip hop head

on a side note, there's a clip of pac in the resurrection documentary where he is backstage doing an impression of Rick James, singing super freak. Hilarious. Dude would have been excellent in comedy movies too!