( Rolling Stone ) -- The long-gestating Tupac Shakur movie may finally begin production this November , now that director Antoine Fuqua ( `` Training Day '' ) has brought on Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson to pen a new script . Wilkinson tells Vulture that the film , originally written in a documentary style , will not be a biopic . Instead , it will focus onTupac 's last day , and flash back on the four years that preceded his still-unsolved shooting death in Las Vegas . `` He was just beginning to shed that anger and look for a purer voice ... He was in the process of changing himself , and entering a new phase of his life , '' says Rivele , who previously teamed with Wilkinson to script `` Ali '' and `` Nixon . '' `` He saw the contradiction between the musical persona of 'Thug Life , ' and his essential nature as a gentle , sensitive person . And that was partly responsible for his murder : He was not a gangster , but the people around him were . '' Rolling Stone : The life and times of the hip-hop great . Like `` Notorious , '' the biopic that starred first-time actor Jamal Woolard as Biggie , Fuqua hopes to cast an unknown to portray Tupac . ( Anthony Mackey , who would later appear in `` The Hurt Locker , '' played Shakur in `` Notorious . '' ) Plans for the movie began in 2007 , when Tupac 's mother , Afeni Shakur , sold the rights . Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone .
The long - awaited Tupac biographical movie may begin production this year . The film , originally conceived in a documentary style , will not be a biopic . Plans for the movie began in 2007 when Tupac 's mother purchased the rights .