Life may throw more opportunities to one person over the other. But true talent and grit can overcome any circumstances and thrive in all environments. Tupac Shakur was the shining example of this as his music and revolutionary lyrics captured fancy of the masses. That success however didn’t mean his life was a bed of roses after he found success. All Eyez on Me movie tells Tupac Shakur’s story, his difficult childhood and his rise to stardom.
All Eyez on Me Cast
Mostly shot in Atlanta, Georgia, the movie first shows Tupac in the Bronx and later in California. Written by Jeremy Haft & Eddie Gonzalez (Empire) and Steven Bagatourian (American Gun), the movie is Directed by Benny Boom (S.W.A.T). To tell his sotry as realistically as possible, producer Hutton dug deep into Tupac’s hundreds of interviews and tried to find answers in them.
All Eyez on Me (2017)
Directed by: Benny Boom
Cast: Demetrius Shipp Jr., Kat Graham, Lauren Cohan, Hill Harper, Danai Gurira
Release Date: June 16 2017
All Eyez on Me Story
Raised in the Bronx by his outspoken mother Afeni (Danai Gurira), a member of the Black Panther Party, Tupac Shakur (Demetrius Shipp Jr.) confronts police brutality at an early age when FBI agents raid his home on Christmas Eve in search of his activist stepfather. Moving to Maryland in his teens, Tupac attends Baltimore School for the Performing Arts, where he befriends a young Jada Pinkett (Kat Graham). But just as Shakur begins thriving in this creative environment, his now drug-addicted mother ships him off to live with relatives in Oakland, California.
Discovered at a Bay Area poetry workshop, Tupac joins Digital Underground and tours with outlandish leader Shock G (Chris Clarke) during the group’s “Humpty Dance” heyday. Tupac soon lands a solo deal with Interscope Records and his first movie role, in Juice. Despite the breakout success of his second album “Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.,” Tupac’s personal life becomes entangled in a string of arrests, financial problems, and gunfights. The problems culminate in November 1994, when Tupac is shot five times in the lobby of New York City’s Quad Recording Studios. The next day he checks himself out of the hospital and goes to court in a wheelchair. Imprisoned in February 1995, Tupac becomes the first inmate to score a No. 1 album when “Me Against the World” soars to the top of the charts.
Released after eight months, Tupac teams with volatile Death Row Records mogul Suge Knight (Dominic Santana) and artist-producer Dr. Dre (Harold House Moore) in Los Angeles, where he records the world’s first hip-hop double album, “All Eyez on Me.” But he is also embroiled in a bitter feud with East Coast rival Biggie Smalls (Jamal Woolard). Amid the escalating war, Tupac falls in love with Quincy Jones’ daughter Kidada Jones (Annie Ilonzeh). A few weeks after a now legendary House of Blues concert in West Hollywood, Tupac travels with Kidada to Las Vegas for a Mike Tyson fight. Stopped at a red light after the match, with Knight at the wheel, Tupac is shot on September 7, 1996, by unknown assailants and dies six days later. Simultaneously triumphant and tragic, All Eyez on Me tells the untold story of incendiary talent Tupac Shakur, dead at 25, who has sold more than 75 million records worldwide.
All Eyez on Me Trailer
Tupac Shakur lived an extraordinary life and did all in just 25 years that many can never achieve in their lifetime. Watch this All Eyez on Me trailer and tells f you will be heading to the movie halls to watch this inspiring biography.
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