John Singleton has no interest in Tupac’s biopic movie, “All Eyez On Me.”
Fans are patiently waiting for Tupac Shakur’s biopic movie, “All Eye On Me” to hit theaters, but John Singleton feels otherwise. Singleton developed a close friendship with Shakur, and was preparing to direct the film, but due to creative differences he backed out of the project completely.
Over the weekend, while at ComplexCon, Singleton sat down with Deray McKesson and revealed why he doesn’t plan on ever watching the film, “I haven’t watched it and I refuse to watch it. I know that they f*cked it up, so I’m not even trying to give it any attention.”
“It’s not about just some rapper. It’s about a dude who was raised to be a revolutionary. He may not have been the next Malcolm X, but he had the potential to be a great leader in this country. He didn’t want that responsibility and was taken down by a lot of different forces that a lot of people really don’t know about.”
“I did the research which was talking to everyone around him who lived it and selectively piecing together their memories and my memories cause everyone wants to make Pac who they wanted them to be. They want to make the Tupac story that involves them and not the Tupac story.”
“I did a great script and I thought they were going to go forward with it, but because I’m so mouthy and opinionated, some people don’t like to work with a black man in Hollywood who has an opinion. I knew they weren’t going to make a good movie at all and they didn’t.”
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