By Justin Worsley
After the commercial success of Geroge Tillman Jr.'s "Notorious" the biopic about the life of rapper Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, director Antoine Fuqua has announced he will be working on a biopic on rival rapper Tupac Shakur.
Fuqua will be taking a similar approach to find his star at Tillman did. Instead of booking one of the hotter stars in Hollywood, Fuqua has announced that he will be looking for his lead actor around the streets of New York and Los Angeles. Jamal Woolard, who portrayed Wallace, was an underground rapper in Brooklyn when he was discovered.
Fuqua is known for his critically-acclaimed film "Training Day," which earned Denzel Washington his second Academy Award as an actor. Fuqua has most recently directed "Brooklyn's Finest" a cop-drama centered around the lives of three separate police officers working in different levels of the New York Police Department.
Prior to Shakur's assassination in 1996, he was also building credibility as an actor, appearing in films such as "Above the Rim," "Poetic Justice" and "Juice." The California-based rapper was also known for his lyrics, which advocated racial equality.
Fuqua is also currently working on a biopic for drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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