John Singleton Drops Out of Tupac Shakur Biopic

Written By Jeff Nau

Despite struggling for months on end on how to tackle the upcoming Tupac Shakur biography movie, John Singleton has announced he’s no longer on board. The chief reason being because (in no uncertain terms) they can’t find someone capable of playing Shakur…

That hasn’t been the official reason they’re giving, though apparently enough info has leaked, that appears to be the official rumor.

This from Variety:

It’s back to the drawing board on the Tupac Shakur movie, as John Singleton has dropped out of discussions to direct the long-gestating biopic… Singleton… couldn’t seal the deal to helm the project for Universal Pictures and Morgan Creek. He’s the second director to drop out after Antoine Fuqua struggled to cast Shakur. Now that unenviable task will be someone else’s headache.

Instead, he’s reunited with Tyrese Gibson and Taraji P. Henson, two of the stars of Baby Boy (does anyone even remember Baby Boy)? I think people could probably quote from Shaft before stumbling over any one-liners from that one.

It’s too bad Singleton dropped out of this thing, since, as GeekTyrant duly pointed out, Singleton developed a friendship on the set of Poetic Justice – and was supposedly working with the widow of the late Shakur on said project.

Hopefully they can find somebody remotely as talented as Singleton to fill the director’s shoes on this one. Excluding “Abducted”, of course…

(via Slash Film)

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