File under WTF! Tupac’s ‘Juice’ Role Filled by Soulja Boy in Remake

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Apr 25, 2002
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*Just after Soulja Boy released his mixtape, “Juice,” he announced that he will be playing the role of legendary West Coast rapper Tupac in an upcoming biopic.

He specifically spoke about becoming “Bishop.”

“Basically, it’s your boy Soulja and I’m Bishop in 2011, running around in the streets, man. You know how the movie goes, but we’re flipping it and shooting in Atlanta. I want to show these people my acting side and me being creative—always giving them something new; that’s all. I got same video director that shot ‘Crank That,’ ‘Kiss Me Through The Phone,’ ‘Turn My Swag On’ —my most successful videos. The whole mixtape is the soundtrack for the movie.”

Filming will begin “soon.”
 
Jan 7, 2004
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Sad, I was just listening to one of Pac's albums yesterday and was thinking, there will never be another rapper that can come close to him IMO. Having one of the gayest rappers out today, one of the most mainstream, studio made pop stars play a street guy that the infamous 2Pac once played is disgraceful. Why do they even make a remake, make it a new movie that just copied Juice. On top of all this it will be in Atlanta, WTH. The movie setting in Juice is what help make it what it was, no need to move it down south.
 
Mar 18, 2003
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"I got same video director that shot..."

From the sound of it, it is just a low budget "remake" of the movie, which he and his video director are doing themselves, and nothing more. In the same realm as "Im Bout It" by Master P. This doesn't bother me at all really. Now if this were to be a bigger-budget movie shot for theaters, and they singled out Soulja Boy for the role, then that would be alarming. Otherwise, who cares.