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Straight Outta Compton (ICE CUBE TO DIRECT N.W.A. BIOPIC)
Dre-Day:
--- Quote from: David Gutterman on May 03, 2010, 02:29:39 PM ---N.W.A. biopic takes shape: Your dream cast?
by Simon Vozick-Levinson
Categories: Casting, Ice Cube, Movies, Music, News
Image Credit: London Features/LFIOver a year after we heard it was in development, New Line's N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton has a writer. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center) will script the rise and fall of the gangsta rap crew. Producers include original N.W.A. member Ice Cube and the widow of the late Eazy-E.
No casting for this film has been announced yet. So who should play core members Cube, Eazy, and Dr. Dre, plus lesser-knowns like MC Ren, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince? I can see The Hurt Locker‘s Anthony Mackie as Eazy-E — they don't look much alike, but Mackie has the right intensity. (He doesn't particularly resemble Tupac Shakur, either, and he did well in Notorious.) Ice Cube, of course, has quite the screen resume these days, so if all else fails maybe he can just slip on a Jheri curl wig and a few pounds of makeup and play himself at 20. Meanwhile, it would be nice to get some of today's actual up-and-coming gangsta rappers on board for this movie. Maybe there's a part in Straight Outta Compton for Nipsey Hussle, Jay Rock, or Freddie Gibbs?
I'm sure you can come up with even better casting ideas. Let's have ‘em. And let us know if this is a movie you're looking forward to.
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wtf, MC Ren & DJ Yella are core members as well.
David Gutterman:
--- Quote from: From Dre-Day to Helter Skelter on May 04, 2010, 09:50:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: David Gutterman on May 03, 2010, 02:29:39 PM ---N.W.A. biopic takes shape: Your dream cast?
by Simon Vozick-Levinson
Categories: Casting, Ice Cube, Movies, Music, News
Image Credit: London Features/LFIOver a year after we heard it was in development, New Line's N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton has a writer. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center) will script the rise and fall of the gangsta rap crew. Producers include original N.W.A. member Ice Cube and the widow of the late Eazy-E.
No casting for this film has been announced yet. So who should play core members Cube, Eazy, and Dr. Dre, plus lesser-knowns like MC Ren, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince? I can see The Hurt Locker‘s Anthony Mackie as Eazy-E — they don't look much alike, but Mackie has the right intensity. (He doesn't particularly resemble Tupac Shakur, either, and he did well in Notorious.) Ice Cube, of course, has quite the screen resume these days, so if all else fails maybe he can just slip on a Jheri curl wig and a few pounds of makeup and play himself at 20. Meanwhile, it would be nice to get some of today's actual up-and-coming gangsta rappers on board for this movie. Maybe there's a part in Straight Outta Compton for Nipsey Hussle, Jay Rock, or Freddie Gibbs?
I'm sure you can come up with even better casting ideas. Let's have ‘em. And let us know if this is a movie you're looking forward to.
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wtf, MC Ren & DJ Yella are core members as well.
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I know, just copy past it.
Dre-Day:
^i understand, was just responding to the article ;)
Triple OG Rapsodie:
I wonder how they'll portray the breakup?
David Gutterman:
ICE CUBE TO DIRECT N.W.A. BIOPIC
News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)
2010-05-31 17:36:04 -
ICE CUBE has confirmed he will step behind the camera to direct the story of his legendary rap group N.W.A. in a new biopic.
The hip-hop star shot to fame in the late 1980s as part of the group fr om Compton, California, drawing attention with controversial tracks inclu ding Gangsta Gangsta and F**k tha Police.
He quit the band in 1989 after a dispute over royalties, and the remain ing N.W.A. members, including Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella, parte d ways in 1991.
But now Ice Cube is bringing their West Coast legacy to cinemas - and h e's recruited former bandmate Dr. Dre to produce the project.
He tells AllHipHop.com, "I think (a movie is) the ultimate... tribute ( to) the group and what the group meant to the world." Ice Cube made his directorial debut with 1998's The Players Club, befor e going on to write hit comedy Friday in 1995.
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