We’ve been waiting 15 years for the upcoming Tupac Shakur movie to get made; how much longer will it be now that the Tupac director bailed for Eminem’s film? Last month we heard rumors that Training Day director Antoine Fuqua was signed on for the Tupac film, based on the rapper’s biopic; he even went so far as to convince Shakur’s mother Afeni to get involved with the film’s creation, and the last thing you want to is pull the rug out from under a celebrity mom.
Apparently Fuqua has since left to helm Eminem’s new film Southpaw. The rapper’s new film features Eminem as a scrappy welterweight who has to rise above the obstacle’s in his life to succeed at the sport, and is based in part on Marshall Mathers’ life. So, just imagine Eight Mile combined with The Fighter, but with more broken noses. The Tupac movie is currently scheduled to start filming later this year. Seeing as how Southpaw allegedly has a similar shooting schedule, it looks like Fuqua is out for good. Because who wasn’t clamoring to see another movie starring Eminem as an angry young man who has to learn how to deal with life’s struggles? We know we weren’t.
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