Ice Cube is doing the interview rounds for the big US release of the hilarious 22 JUMP STREET, which arrives in US this week, and in one of said interviews (with the San Jose Mercury News), Cube gave an update on the planned N.W.A. movie STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON. The film is being directed by F. Gary Gray, and is to be produced by Cube, fellow former N.W.A. member-turned-billionaire Dr. Dre, and Easy-E’s widow, Tomica Woods-Wright.
We’d heard that Cube wanted his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr. to play him in the planned biopic, but he is said to have gone off and auditioned a bunch of actors for the part anyway. Now, just a couple of months later, the Mercury reveals that Cube has managed to persuade executives that Jackson is the man for the part, and is more than able to pull it off, despite his limited acting experience.
N.W.A. were a controversial rap group that formed in the notorious city of Compton in 1986, and enjoyed success with a number of albums before they split in 1991. Their songs included the title track from the planned movie, Straight Outta Compton, Fuck The Police and Express Yourself. Most of their songs were banned from radio stations across the United States, and indeed the world, but both Cube and Dre enjoyed chart success later in life; Cube with the chart-topping You Can Do It, and Dre with The Next Episode, Still D.R.E. and Forgot About Dre, a collaboration with his prodigy, Eminem.
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON will be released some time in late 2015/ 2016.
Source: San Jose Mercury News
