While serving an 11-month sentence at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., Tupac Shakur penned a screenplay, which is the only script the popular rapper/actor ever wrote. Now, development has started on getting Shakur’s work made into an actually film.
According to the synopsis, the film titled, Live 2 Tell is described as:
At eight years old, it all went wrong for Scott. The suicide of his father and the family’s slow-motion disintegration helped propel him into the higher realms of organized crime. Young Scott is taken under the protective wing of one of the last gentlemen gangsters, Dee. He is being groomed for the top spot when Dee is ambushed and killed by the mysterious Nickedemus gang. Scott takes over, even though older hands feel he’s too inexperienced. However, Scott proves equal to the task and takes the business into legitimate and community-minded directions. His big advantage over his contemporaries is that he can think his way through to a life past crime. After a while, Scott’s fellow cartel heads, one-by-one, start coming up murdered. Scott realizes that it is only a matter of time before Nickedemus reappears and the blood will start flowing. He makes a decision to get out of the game, reconcile with his family and escape to a new life with his school-years sweetheart, Carla. Events overtake him and Scott is forced to deal with the consequences of his life as a major drug dealer. Scott makes it through to the other side, but not before he sheds his share of blood, toil and pain.
Shakur wrote the film and intended to star in it himself, but because of his premature 1996 death, that dream never came into fruition. Preston Holmes and Ivan Juzang’s NStar Studios (who collaborated with Afeni Shakur for the documentary Tupac: Resurrection) will produce the film alongside Shakur’s mother.
