There hasn't been much public news about the upcoming Notorious B.I.G. biopic since the well publicized October open casting calls in New York. However our sources who are working on this movie have given us an exclusive update. While you can still view video submissions on the official site, all open casting calls have been closed including the online submissions as well. You can listen to some of the contestants here though and judge for yourself how similar they sound to B.I.G.
Our sources were very tight-lipped about when filming will actually start, but they did reveal casting is not final and still in progress but it was emphasized we should not believe any of the current rumors out there at all. This includes any of the supporting roles as well such as who will play Tupac or Faith Evans.
Basically they debunked every rumored actor/actress discussed on the net. What does this mean? It means at this point in time don't believe anything you hear about casting for this film. The producers already had to publically announce Sean Kingston was not cast as Biggie. So to set the record straight Guerrilla Black or Forrest Whitaker is not playing Biggy, Fredro Starr is not playing Tupac, and Diddy is not playing Diddy. But this is Hollywood...who knows...since Diddy is an exec producer on the film he could always demand he put himself in.
So who would be the perfect cast for Biggie, Pac, Diddy and Faith Evans? And no...Faith Evans as Faith Evans does not count....as always we'll have the official updates as they roll in.
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COMMENTS
FIRST !!!!!!...on tha real i think ja should play pac,diddy play himself and beyonce play faith.as for biggie,its gotta be guerilla black.
i agree
I dont kno about Beyonce playin Faith. Faith got somethin B doesn't....like real hair.
Ja play Pac? mmmmm NOOOOOOOOOOOO
How bout Pac play Pac?
Pac can't play Pac cause he still in hiding.
big sucks man im glad he is dead he talks 2 much shit they need 2 make a movie on 2pac
:))) PAC's dead as a motherfucka... Ja would be good for pac don't know about the rest though... B.I.G. rip
YUP HE SHULD CONSIDERIN HE SOUND LIKE DAT NIKKA
BUT FUK DIDDY HE A BITCH
blackk — about 2 hours ago
FIRST !!!!!!...on tha real i think ja should play pac,diddy play himself and beyonce play faith.as for biggie,its gotta be guerilla black.
Yeah Ja shud play pac hes bein playing him his entire career
LMAO this is true...
hahahaha!
Guerilla Black it the most similar to Big...
dam i forgot bout this dam movie!
2 answer ur las question hell naw he aint on pacs level pac ate ever fukin raper that came against him...... biggie puffy jay z nas mobb deep an a whole buncha other corny sounding motha fuckas
u dumb...nobody sayin he great cuz he had a short career... he great cuz what he did wit the short time he did have... and its a shame cuz he woulda only got better if he aint die.
Yea just b/c BIG had a short career doesn't mean he wasn't good. Also the movie is meant to be a realitic portrayal of BIG's life...not a way to show he was better than anyone else. That's like saying the family of Ray Charles or Johnny Cash did RAY and WALK THE LINE to show up peeps. NO! They did it to celebrate the life of a great musician.
Hands down BIG was a great musician. And he has a great story to tell that will go well on film.
Same thing about Pac, joe. You probably didn't start listening to him til after he died
EXACTLY!!
u can always spot the kids who only listen to pac cuz he died
they say stupid shit like that
i bet this dumbass still thinks pac is alive in cuba somewhere
Anyone but Sean Kingston. I still can't believe that fool claimed he got the part. What a joke. Diddy as Diddy that's the way it should be.
I gotta disagree with JA as Pac...that's a disgrace. There gotta be someone better than that!
IF JA play in it , the hip hop is dead
JA is a fucking faget ,Fuck this movie r.i.p B.I.G
thats why its called acting
So the dudes in Dipset really are gangsters??!!!! O my god, ive been so wrong my whole life. Ive always thought they were jus fake thugs with nursery rhymes and pink fur coats. I feel sooo stupid....Sarcasm is a bitch
u a clown if you think pac ate every rapper... im sayin tho i ont even kno if he did or not... all i know is he did NOT rip biggie.....word up.
then call me a clown
Aight then u a big ass Pac ridin clown. U probably saw 2pac ressurection and started lissenin to him.
ur a fukin hoe DCintheSouth ur in denial pac fukin ate biggie chewed him up an spit him back out pussy "thats y i fucked ur bitch u fat mother fucker" an no1 cares what the xxl said about this movie u pussi ur probaly stil a virgin fag and hop off of f 50 dick
Im waiting on this movie
p.s. R.I.P to the boy Sean Taylor 1 of the best safeties in the NFL..that was my boy....somebody need to step up and stop all this violence in our community but they to worried about the Jena 6 and being called nappy headed hoes when its a black man killing a black man everyday
JA is allready a Pac-wannabe.
fuck all who say ja is a pac-wannabe you are ja rule wannabes
and ja rule was a good rapper not his lyrics or his flow made him good but his attidude and image stop talkin shit
You get props for being the one ja rule fan left in the world
Dave Chappelle as DIDDY.
on the real though, impossible role to fill for BIG but what about forest whitaker, a real actor. only man that i can kind of see pull it off.
Dave Chappelle as Diddy and William "The Refrigerator" Perry as BIGGY...and Katt Williams as Faith Evans.
I say scrap the whole fucking idea of making a movie. Love him or hate him, he was just a fucking rapper. Fuck Tupac, too. Let's stop building all the fucking memorials, parks, and learning centers, because those two negroes didn't give a fuck about any of that when they were stil here on earth with us. They were two rappers who died tragically, but who otherwise had NO redeeming qualities other than the fact that they sounded nice on the mic AT TIMES. Niggas didn't think Pac was shit til All Eyes On Me,and all the new age rap fans will listen to anything with Pac's voice in it, good or bad only "because" and "after" he died. Realistically, Pac only had a few good singles from all of his albums, maybe a total of 7 or 8 and Biggie only had about 4 or 5 total. All that shit that was realesed from the vault after they both died was pure shit. So let's let these two dead rappers rest in peace, and move on with our lives and celebrate some other black men who are more deserving of a movie, documentary, recreation center, or memorial. Why not make a movie about Huey Newton, Marcus Garvey, George Washington Carver, or Booker T. Washington?
Man f-50 u made da most since. As much as i luv BIG, id rather see a Huey Newton film b4 a rapper who got shot. But then again, white folks make movies about irrelevant people who dont matter to anything in this day and age. Id probably enjoy a Big movie, id wanna see reenactmens of his old freestyle battles.
A while age, XXL magazinqe said this about da movie:
BIG: Guerilla Black
Puffy: Jamie Foxx
Voletta Wallace: Della Reese
Lil Kim: Countess Vaughn
Jay-z: John Stapleton
Faith: Tisha Cambell (Gina)
Lil Cease: Aries Spears
Charlie Bmore: Uma Thurman
2Pac: Fredro Starr
Nas: Wood Harris
Ma$e: Nick Cannon
Snoop: Himself
Suge KNight: Vign Rhames
Mary J. Blidge: Elise Neal
why is snoop the only one that gets to play himself?
Yea this just gets too weird when you got all the celeb/rappers who are famous and alive being played by different people. Thats gonna be a challenge right there. At least all the other music bio movies out there were old enuff taht the real person couldnt play the role.
I think the Snoop Dogg shit waz a joke. It waz in XXL
Fuck-f-50 and thats for Pac-listen to Pacs music he cared about that shit while he was alive.all of pacs albums went platinum even the ones b4 all eyez on me.so dont say niggaz wasnt feelin pac b4 that.everybody and they momma felt pac.and u sayin pac dont deserve a memorial or a movie,nigga u can eat a dick and who ever supports f-50 can eat one too.nigga listen to pac,i mean put ya fuckin ear up to the speaker and listen!He got a lyric,poem or word for all life's experiences.f-50, fuck u-that was a total dis respect to 2pac
MAKE A TUPAC MOVIE THAT NIGGA REAL
BIG WAS BETTER!!!
I think the nigga from 40 year old virgin shud play Pac. The bald black dude who kept mention "the pussy on the pedalstoll" thing.
That dude your talking about played as Mc Hammer as well. Just thought I throw that in there.
YO Dc Thats the same dude from the Mc Hammer Movie right lol
I think that the actors that play; Biggie, Pac, Diddy and Faith Evans, Should be; beanie sigel (Biggie), Cuba Gooding Jr (pac), Diddy (diddy), and Jessica Alba (faith evans)
cuba gooding jr.??????? yea fuckin right lol
i don wanna see a movie with musicians as actors i want real actors with real experience na'mean BIG's a story of his life shouldnt be a stepping stone for musicians to better there acting game, the man had a historical life and the movie should be a classic not some wak as movie with fake actors
i think a pac movie would have more in terms of a story than a big movie...they should make a pac movie.
Static
Pac's first album to go platinum was the joint with Dear Mamma on it, and that was a slow process. The 2 albums before it went wood during their day. Yes, I am saying that he does not deserve a memorial, and neither does Biggie. Think for a minute about the behavior, the time period, and what Pac was representing when he died. Was it or was it not the beat down of Orlando Anderson that got his ass shot that night in Vegas? I have listened to Pac's music and I am still trying to figure out why he used the words convalescent and adolescent in the same line.....was it just for the sake of rhyming, 'casue that shit doesn't make any fucking sense....as did a lot of his lyrics...granted, he was a poetic a time or two in his rhymes.
F-50
All of pacs cd's are platinum-check the shit out.i been done the research and all eyez on me is diamond-10times platinum but convalescent means a recovering from an illness or gun shot wound etc and adolescent is ya tee age years of development-so it all makes since, it was all in context-do ya home work and LISTEN-not just hear it-lol-shits funny.plus everybody got two sides. martin luther King cheated on his wife so dont go there.matter of fact almost all the presidents have.what about brenda's got a baby,on my block,dear momma,happy home,ill never call u bitch again n there is many more.then he got a political side to him too-panther party,in this white mans world,dear my president etc-then his thug shit-hit em up,when i ride on my enemies-i mean come on bra u sound stupid.on my momma u dont know what u talkin about im pretty sure everybody on here knows that-lol
WHY EVEN PUT TUPAC IN IT
THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT BIG'S LIFE
I DON'T WANT TO RELIVE DAT SHIT AGAIN WE EXPERIENCED IN 95
BOTH SIDES A RE DIFFERENT BUT THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT HIS LIFE NOT HIS ENEMIES
beacuse as a rapper biggie became world famous thanks to PAC so there is no way u can have a biggie movie with no pac...just wouldnt happen.
Keisha Coles - Faith
Guerilla Black - Biggie
Ja Rule - Pac
P Diddy - Derek Luke (friday night lights, finding forrester)
De Bo - Suge Knight
and Biggie didnt become World Famous because of Pac.....that was diddy makin collabo's with R&B artist not to mention a rhyme stlye second to none.....
Like I said before, Pac's fist platinum album was the joint with Dear Mamma on it in late 1994(following his arrests in ATL and NYC). All you did was list a bunch of songs that came off of his first 2 albums that nobody gave a fuck about or listened to until after his death. Also, take note to what I said earlier...."those albums went wood in their day"...translation, they are platinum plus now, but didn't do shit then.....which was my very point in the beginning. Perhaps instead of slinging what you think are insults, you should engage in a little remedial rap history research before you speak out. Personally, I don't give a shit about Martin Luther King cheating on his wife, or past or present presidents who may have cheated on their wives....it's irrelevant and off point....in any event, those same presidents and Martin Luther King have done more for people and for your people than a rapper ever could.
These people you mention have participated in or have affected national policies that have effected change not only in your life, but the lives of your children's children. For you to compare a rapper to MLK or any president, good or bad, shows that you lack a clear understanding of the world around you, of history, your past and present, of your history, and of your own survival in this world...son. Just to point out your ignorance, how the hell can you take a blanket statement such as all presidents cheat on their wives and use that as the basis of an argument. Your technique is flawed homey and so is youe mind-set....and of course you do have proof of it...pics, movies. You keep thinking that a rapper has the same or more significance and impact in your life or in the world at large than a president or a historical figure such as an MLK, and you'll do just find. You keeping taking your lead in life from a nigga whose sole purpose is life is to entertain you, and I do otherwise. After all, you can learn a lot by shaking your ass. Who next, Soldier Boy...YYYYOOOUUU!
P.S. Thanks for giving us Webster's definition of convalescent and adolescent...you did great son, now put down that Source Mag and pick up a few other books of choice. I can recommend a few for you for starters...cause you, you lost mutha fucka!
PAC-MEKHI PHEIFER (I DNT KNOW HOW TO SPELL DAT NIGGA NAME!)
BIG-GUERRILLA BLACK OR DA FAT NIGGA FROM 8 MILE
AND EVERYBODY ELSE CAN PLAY THEMSELVES!
co-sign to dat nigga from 8 mile and diddy cud play himself erryone else needs some real actors
we got some clowns on the net man. fo real. lol
ayo its gonna be beanie sigel for the role of big.
Damn-F-50-thanks for the novel-lol-the songs i listed were relavant due to u being a disrespectful dick head.Brydz-u right we do have some clowns on here!Disrespectul to the dead,hatin ass clowns to be exact.and i listen to rap for content not to dance n shit.i dont even dance nigga at the bar u can catch me hand full of liquor while puffin on a sweet swisher-get that straight.i swear nigga u a hatin as clown that need to be put in his place.cause i can give a fuck about hip hop the nature of the cause,the shit is watered like a scene from Jaws,especially since Pac died.all my knowledge comes from being logical and what im %100 sure about or i wouldn't state it.so go-ahead and write another novel-n some more looser bla,bla,bla,disrespetful shit cause i have nonthin else to prove.i wont be respondin back to ur lame,disrespectful shit again.no matter what u say,im 100% sure u wrong about Pac-let the nigga rest and quit being disrespectful.thats how i kno u a fake nigga.disrespectin the dead.damn nigga u should be ashamed of yaself-ill pray 4 u
Let MLK rest in peace and all of those dead presidents you're disrespectin. I could give a fuck about what you smoke or sip on nigga. Are you supposed to be spittin' knowledge or something by saying that stupid shit? Yeah, I wrote a novel that you cannot dispute or respond to. Paying homage to a false idle (rapper) ain't gonna help you. I understand why you doing though. Nigga you lost, so a nigga can say any half baked shit and it appeals to your small simple minded ass....so it's gotta be deep, right?
I have to co-sign wit STATIC but let me say this is the wrong thread but interesting though. ive been readin both of your post and Static makes alot more since.Cause F-50 u are being disrespectful towards 2pac.and Static didn disrespect MLK nor any of the presidensts in any way.Its all facts that have been proven: presidents cheat on their wives(not all) and MLK did too.F-50 are u a white boy?or are u c delores's tuckers son?But in the end everybody and they momma love Pac.and what u say is demeaning,disrespectful and degrading to a rap legend,icon and a prophet.and im 35 year old history teacher who keeps up with the time!