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
