Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Aldis Hodge And Neil Brown, Jr. Live Life "Straight Outta Compton"

Deadline reports that Aldis Hodge will play MC Ren and Neil Brown, Jr. will play DJ Yella in the upcoming N.W.A biopic "Straight Outta Compton".




N.W.A., short for Ni--az Wit Attitudes, was an influential hip hop group from Compton during the late 80's and considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap scene.

Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr. will play his father in the film.

 Jonathan Herman wrote the latest draft of the script--Scribes Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Matt Alvarez have all been linked to the project as scripters in the past.

"The Italian Job" helmer F. Gary Gray is going to direct. Gray beat out the likes of John Singleton George Tillman Jr. and Elgin James for the job.

Universal took the film out of turnaround from New Line Cinema. The studio has set an August 14, 2015 release date for the film.

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