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February 19, 2009

Tupac biopic held up in legal battle...

According to THR, Morgan Creek studios and the Shakur estate are at odds and scuffling over the rights to the story. Morgan Creek’s production banner has sued the company run by Afeni Shakur, the mother of the late rapper, claiming the company have had cold feet and backed out of an agreement to sell his life rights for a movie adaptation.

Negotiations began in November that saw Morgan Creek’s parent company, Rick Nicita productions owning the life rights to his story, and a contract was drawn up (life rights are integral to deals like this because they allow for the inclusion of the original music). But according to the complaint recently filed in courts, Afeni Shakur’s Amaru Entertainment is “refus(ing) to honor and perform a contract of a production of the film based on the life of Tupac Shakur.”