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Welcome to Death Row - (Compton "sequel" to focus on Snoop and Tupac)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/21/entert...n-sequel-feat/
(CNN)If there is money to be made, you better believe Hollywood will make sequel after sequel of a successful film. But how do you follow up on "Straight Outta Compton"? We may soon find out; TMZ reports that there are plans to do just that after the N.W.A biopic grossed $60 million over its opening weekend, more than doubling its production budget of $29 million. Color us skeptical until there is a cast assembled, but according to TMZ, the film will document the rise of West Coast rappers like Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur (who were both briefly depicted in the new movie). Of course, Dr. Dre and Suge Knight would be included in such a film, as it was their Death Row Records that was at the center of the story. If it happens, here's what we'd like to see. The love story of Snoop and his wife Fans know a bit about the rapper's wife, Shante Broadus, from their now-defunct reality show "Snoop Dogg's Father Hood," in which she firmly handled business both at home with their kids and in Snoop's career (her nickname is "Boss Lady"). The couple has three children together. The pair are childhood sweethearts and have weathered a great deal, including a high-profile split after they married in 1997; they later reconciled. Their back story could add some sweetness and romance to the film. What really started the East Coast/West Coast beef? It's one of the most famous rivalries in music, and some blame the deaths of Shakur and Biggie Smalls on tensions between the hip-hop players from opposite coasts. There's been a lot of speculation as to what really went down, so perhaps it's time to set the record straight. Putting an end to the speculation about Tupac Some people believe that Shakur did not really die after being shot in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. Much of it seems to hinge on the fact that he adopted the name "Makaveli" for his posthumous "The Don Killuminati" album, in honor of famed Italian writer and strategist Niccolò Machiavelli. The claim is that Machiavelli advocated faking one's death to escape the enemy, so that's what Shakur did. A film on the rise of his career could help put this urban legend to bed for good. if it is done half as well as SOC then i would be all for it, until then, i dunno... |
Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
No.
Edit: Still waiting for "Menz N The Hood." |
Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Nope.
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
None of this is official. Nobody from SOC is involved. And it really isn't a "sequel".
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Nope.
While not much detail, I already see this as a VH1 movie of the week. Sounds cheap. Only way to have a real sequel is to have everyone back when it counts and go from there. Gonna need same director as well. |
Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
There still hasn't been a Tupac movie. He was more beloved than NWA ever was. That will be the one that could be huge when they eventually make it, but they better not fuck it up.
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Rumor has it that the dude who played Tupac in SOC would play him in the biopic/sequel/whatever.
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
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Rumor has it that the dude who played Tupac in SOC would play him in the biopic/sequel/whatever.
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
How would a movie put anything to rest for conspiracy theorists who think Tupac faked his death? Who's going to go "well, it's in a movie so it must be true" if they didn't believe it before?
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
IF they make another movie then it better have the Dogg Pound in it. I like how they conveniently left them out when they were a huge part of the founding days of Death Row and contributors to the Chronic album.
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
It doesn't have anything to do with NWA, but if they just want to do another rap biopic I'd like to see one about Run DMC.
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Originally Posted by OldBoy
(Post 12567672)
i can understand why...he was a fucking scary dead ringer.
Marcc Rose as Tupac Shakur (voiced by Darris Love) |
Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Originally Posted by dsa_shea
(Post 12567705)
IF they make another movie then it better have the Dogg Pound in it. I like how they conveniently left them out when they were a huge part of the founding days of Death Row and contributors to the Chronic album.
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Originally Posted by VHS?
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Because this was an NWA movie?
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Originally Posted by dsa_shea
(Post 12567802)
Snoop Dogg and Tupac had as much to do with NWA as the Dogg Pound did. Also, the DPG could have been represented in those Death Row scenes along with the bunch of background thugs they had hanging around Suge.
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
But it was still an NWA film, not a 'history of rap' movie. This movie could have been 8 hours long if they wanted to add anyone who they knew at the time.
I dont think they should do a sequel, but just another movie on whoever and give it another name. Maybe do a Death row movie and show a little NWA then on with the focus people/groups. |
Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Originally Posted by VHS?
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But it was still an NWA film, not a 'history of rap' movie. This movie could have been 8 hours long if they wanted to add anyone who they knew at the time.
I dont think they should do a sequel, but just another movie on whoever and give it another name. Maybe do a Death row movie and show a little NWA then on with the focus people/groups. |
Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Originally Posted by Throwing Copper
(Post 12567912)
I know a guy from an internet message board who used to hang out with Daz. :D
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Re: Straight Outta Compton 2 (focus on Snoop and Tupac) (TBD)
Hollywood could be staying in Compton. In the wake of Straight Outta Compton's box-office success, APA is shopping Welcome to Death Row, which features many of the same figures from the Universal hit. The agency has put together a package based on a book and documentary of the same name by S. Leigh Savidge, who received a story and co-executive producer credit on Compton. While Compton chronicles the rise and breakup of seminal gangsta rap group N.W.A — a span that covers nearly a decade from the late 1980s to 1996 — and features the group's members Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and the late Eazy-E as the film's three main protagonists, Welcome to Death Row involves the years after N.W.A formed, one of the most explosive and controversial periods in music history. It's an era when rappers like Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur forged mega-solo careers and Death Row Records' Suge Knight reigned as the most powerful and feared hip-hop executive in the business. No music rights are attached to Death Row, which could complicate a studio deal, but Savidge brought in N.W.A's music rights after he and Alan Wenkus began writing Compton in 2002. At the time, the pair persuaded Eazy-E’s widow and rights holder Tomica Woods-Wright to sign on and set up the project at New Line (Universal eventually picked up the movie in 2014). Compton has become a breakout for Universal, earning $141 million since its Aug. 14 release. The movie, which cost $29 million to make, also has held the top spot domestically three weekends in a row. The F. Gary Gray-helmed film has ignited the hip-hop biopic market: Morgan Creek and Emmett/Furla's Tupac movie is nearing the starting gate, with Carl Franklin on board to direct. That movie would largely cover the era of West Coast rap from the early 1990s — overlapping with the tail end of Compton's narrative (Tupac, played by Marcc Rose, appears in a scene toward the end of Compton) — through the death of Tupac in 1996. |
Re: Welcome to Death Row - (Compton "sequel" to focus on Snoop and Tupac)
None of these films are going to work.
The reason Straight Outta Compton worked was it was released in the right place and right time. The albums Straight Outta Compton, Niggaz4Life, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, and Death Certificate were all released when racial tensions were high in Los Angeles... ultimately to what would lead to the riots (which I thought the film could've done a better job handling). Very similar to the events occurring in our country today. Any film based upon Death Row, Aftermath, etc. won't have the same effect. These releases will flop just like Notorious. However, if anyone wants a tour of the street corner Tupac was shot and killed on, I'll be more than welcome to take them there. :lol: |
Re: Welcome to Death Row - (Compton "sequel" to focus on Snoop and Tupac)
i think if the script is right and the same players line up, get Gray back to helm, i see no reason why this couldn't succeed in a couple years as well...
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Re: Welcome to Death Row - (Compton "sequel" to focus on Snoop and Tupac)
Originally Posted by OldBoy
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i think if the script is right and the same players line up, get Gray back to helm, i see no reason why this couldn't succeed in a couple years as well...
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Re: Welcome to Death Row - (Compton "sequel" to focus on Snoop and Tupac)
Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel
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Except none of this will happen.
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Re: Welcome to Death Row - (Compton "sequel" to focus on Snoop and Tupac)
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Re: Welcome to Death Row - (Compton "sequel" to focus on Snoop and Tupac)
Originally Posted by OldBoy
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why?
This is a film being shopped by an entirely different team, specifically chasing the money that Straight Outta Compton has been making. |
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