Antoine Fuqua Leaves TUPAC For SOUTHPAW With Eminem

Training Day director Antoine Fuqua was supposed to direct TUPAC SHAKUR biopic this year but that’s not the case anymore..

24 Frames said that Fuqua has dropped TUPAC and decided to take on SOUTHPAW, a boxing drama with my favorite rapper, Eminem… finally! I’ve always thought Eminem is a talented actor but he hasn’t done jack as an actor since 8 Mile and that’s almost a decade ago..
You first heard of SOUTHPAW project back in December when it was reported that DreamWorks bought the pitch/
The script is written by Sons Of Anarchy creator/exec producer Kurt Sutter. Eminem is attached to play a welterweight boxer in SOUTHPAW
The story is about “a fast-rising welterweight boxer who brawls his way to the title, only to see his world crash down around him due to tragedy”. After The Fighter, everybody’s excited about boxing movies again.
Production is expected to start later this year but Fuqua’s deal is not locked in yet.

I gotta be honest with ya,. I was seriously lookin’ forward to TUPAC Biopic so as excited as I am about Eminem gettin’ a movie gig again, I hope a filmmaker would pick up TUPAC biopic and that the project would happen in the near future.