{"id":20517,"date":"2017-05-11T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=20517"},"modified":"2017-05-10T22:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:00:29","slug":"tupac-shakur-doc-in-the-works-with-steve-mcqueen-directing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=20517","title":{"rendered":"Tupac Shakur Doc in the Works With Steve McQueen Directing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1970 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tupac-ohsodj1.jpg?resize=250%2C243\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"243\" \/>The Estate of Tupac Shakur is backing a doc on the late rapper&#8217;s life directed by <em>12 Years a Slave <\/em> Steve McQueen.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shakur Estate trustee Tom Whalley and Amaru Entertainment, the company created by Afeni Shakur to release her son\u2019s posthumous projects, announced today that Nigel Sinclair\u2019s White Horse Pictures and Jayson Jackson will team up to produce a fully authorized documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely moved and excited to be exploring the life and times of this legendary artist,&#8221; said McQueen. &#8220;I attended NYU film school in 1993 and can remember the unfolding hip-hop world and mine overlapping with Tupac\u2019s through a mutual friend in a small way. Few, if any shined brighter than Tupac Shakur. I look forward to working closely with his family to tell the unvarnished story of this talented man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Estate of Tupac Shakur is backing a doc on the late rapper&#8217;s life directed by 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[807,1318],"class_list":["post-20517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-matrix","tag-tupac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-5kV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tupac-ohsodj.jpg?fit=540%2C524&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20518,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517\/revisions\/20518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}