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Sundance: ‘The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete’ Scribe Gets ‘Tupac’ Gig

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday January 19, 2013 @ 10:34am PSTTags: Morgan Creek, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up, Tupac Shakur

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Starrbury has been brought on board to rewrite Morgan Creek Productions’ Tupac Shakur biopic. Starrbury wrote the screenplay for The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, which is premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Tupac film was announced by Morgan Creek in early 2011. The screenplay for the movie about the iconic hip hop artist, who was killed in 1996, was originally written by Steve Bagatourian, Stephen Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson.  James Robinson, David Robinson, and LT Hutton are producing, with Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur as executive producer. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, about two abandoned small boys trying to survive in the city, is generating a lot of interest at Sundance even though it doesn’t premiere until January 25. Select buyers got an advance look by attending a volunteer Inevitable screening on January 17. Starrbury is also currently finishing up adapting the graphic novel The Great Unknown for New Line. Mark Gordon and Jennifer Todd are producing the action comedy, with Jorma Taccone directing. Michael Starrbury is repped by CAA and Caliber Media.

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Berlin: The World Likes Tupac Shakur

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 11, 2011 @ 5:40pm PSTTags: 61st Berlin Film Festival, 61st Berlin Film Festival Deals, 61st Berlin International Film Festival, Movie Deals, Movies, Tupac Shakur
Mike Fleming

Morgan Creek Productions is doing well in selling offshore rights to Tupac, the biopic of rapper Tupac Shakur that will begin production by the summer with Antoine Fuqua directing. One might think a film about an American rapper who … Read More »

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Morgan Creek’s ‘Tupac’ Gets Underway This Summer

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 10, 2011 @ 4:38pm PSTTags: Antoine Fuqua, Morgan Creek, Movies, Tupac Shakur
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles, CA February 10, 2011 – Principal photography is scheduled to begin in late Spring/early Summer on the biopic “TUPAC,” it was announced today James G. Robinson, Co-Chairman/CEO, and Rick Nicita, Co-Chairman/COO, of Morgan Creek Productions. Directed by

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