Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me officially gets release date
Tupac fans the world over can breathe a sigh of relief today as we're one step closer to seeing the elusive, long-awaited biopic All Eyez On Me. After numerous delays and rumors, we finally were given a real date for the theatrical release: June 16, 2017. The day should be familiar to 'Pac fans as the rapper/actor's birthday, and because 2017 marks the year that Shakur would have blown out 46 candles, it's quite the present.
The news came courtesy of Dominic Santana, who plays Suge Knight in the film. He posted the date on Instagram, with the qualifier of how it's still seven months away and that this is perfectly normal for a "major film."
Santana stars alongside Demetrius Shipp Jr. as Tupac and Jamal Woolard as Biggie, reprising his role from the 2009 biopic Notorious. Shipp's father actually co-produced Pac's 1996 track "Toss It Up," so the connections run deep. All Eyez is being helmed by BET Award-winning music video director Benny Boom, making it his third feature film after 2009's Next Day Air and 2011's S.W.A.T.: Firefight.
Perhaps coincidentally, this news arrives on the 10th anniversary of the release of Pac's Life, 2Pac's final posthumous album. The first trailer we saw was distributed on the 20th anniversary of Pac's death in September, so the rollout has been very deliberately meticulous.
A photo posted by Dominic Santana (@officialdomsantana) on Nov 21, 2016 at 1:21pm PST