Tupac x Morgan Creek. Seems like this Tupac biopic is going to be locked in a legal battle for some time before this ever gets made, let alone make it to pre-production stages. Afeni Shakur, Pac’s mom, has countersued Morgan Creek Entertainment for damages in regards to a Tupac biopic. Billboard states:

In a $10 million cross-complaint set to be filed Monday morning, Afeni Shakur’s Amaru Entertainment claims that Morgan Creek, CEO James Robinson and others tried to strong-arm a deal for Tupac movie rights, then sabotaged the project when Amaru attempted to set it up elsewhere.

“Instead of negotiating in good faith with (Amaru), they sought to obtain the rights by concocting a nonexistent ‘agreement’ and engaging in heavy-handed threats, coercion and intimidation to interfere with and ultimately destroy the film project,” Amaru claims.

Morgan Creek first filed a lawsuit last month in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming that Amaru, which controls the Tupac estate, backed out of a completed deal to sell life rights for a biopic about the slain rapper-actor.

For Tupac fans maybe this is a blessing in disguise. I know many out here on the West Coast don’t want to ever see this movie happen. At least we will get our NWA movie though.