"...the most inspiring and dangerous mother-son duo in American history..."

I maj kom nyheten om en ny dokumentärserie om Tupac Shakur, skapad av “The Defiant Ones”-regissören Allan Hughes. Nu står det klart att amerikanska kanalen FX köpt upp serien som uppenbarligen ska fokusera på stjärnan Tupac, men även hans mamma Afeni Shakur. “Outlaw: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur” kommer att visas i fem delar och beskrivs av FX med orden:

“Told through the eyes of the people who knew them best, Outlaw is an intimate wide-angle portrait of the most inspiring and dangerous mother-son duo in American history, whose unified message of freedom, equality, persecution and justice are more relevant today than ever.”

Regissören Hughes ska enligt Deadline ha förhandlat till sig en överenskommelse med Tupacs dödsbo i maj, där både släppta och osläppt inspelningar samt skrifter och poesi får användas. Hughes har tidigare berättat om sina erfarenheter med dödsboet kring HBO-serien “The Defiant Ones”.

“The Tupac Estate was — and I know them, they’re all old friends — but there was some stuff with him at the gun range that they were precious about. My original cut is not the way it [eventually aired]. The family and the estate were really sensitive about taking things out of context when it came to weapons in his hands, you know? He was at a shooting range and it was pretty explosive in the original cut, and they were very, very, very adamant that we not do it that way.”

Ännu finns ingen trailer eller premiärdatum för serien, men håll utkik för mer information.

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