NWA Movie in the Works
Written by DJ Special Blend from Chicago on March 16, 2009
“Straight Outta Compton” seems to be the appropriate title for the film to tell the story of the Rap group who helped bring Gangster Rap to the forefront.
Entertainment Weekly reports that the movie will tell the story of the group’s founders: Dr. Dre, Easy E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella.
The film’s producers include Dre, Cube and Tomica Woods-Wright (Easy’s widow) and they are at the point where they are tossing the script around and looking for a director.
New Line is developing Straight Outta Compton, an urban drama about N.W.A. The project will chronicle the rise and fall of the rap quartet, founded by Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and MC Ren, whose songs were so incendiary (i.e. “F— tha Police”) they were banned from radio playlists but still sold millions of albums. The film’s producers, which include Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Tomica Wright (Eazy-E’s widow), and Circle of Confusion entertainment, are now actively searching for a director along the lines of Curtis Hanson (8 Mile).
