2001 Welcome to Deathrow documentary being shopped as movie now

[Rev Jones]

Welcome To Death Row, a documentary released in 2001 that covered the business dealings of Death Row Records and that later spawned a book, is being shopped as a movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The APA talent agency is shopping the film by S. Leigh Savidge, who wrote an early version of the Straight Outta Compton script and co-executive produced the film. The N.W.A biopic has been the #1 film at the box office for three consecutive weeks and has grossed more than $140 million at the box office.


The Welcome To Death Row film would feature several of the same people portrayed in Straight Outta Compton.
Dr. Dre left N.W.A, whose debut album was called Straight Outta Compton, to found Death Row Records with Suge Knight. The imprint later released material by Snoop Dogg and Tupac, among others. All four are characters in Straight Outta Compton and their respective times at Death Row Records would be chronicled in Welcome To Death Row.


Welcome To Death Row faces at least one potential obstacle, The Hollywood Reporter says. The music rights to Death Row Records’ material is not included in the film package being pitched to studios.

[ShaDynasty]

I said this in the other thread, thats the most fascinating part of the movie and they need to expand on that. The dynamic between Suge and Dre, Pac, Snoop, DOC etc is so weird and creepy and he did stuff like dangle Vanilla Ice off a balcony, kill people because he felt like it, sign MC Hammer not to mention most likely having 2 of the most popular rappers of the 90s assassinated for no good reason.

Like RBX said in an interview recently its the corporate world meeting the street world. Its material Scorsese would direct except if he did it he'd probably cast DiCaprio as Suge Knight.

[chiba]

Ha! the wolf of deathrow