Tupac Shakur documentary to be made by Steve McQueen

The late Tupac Shakur‘s estate is backing an official documentary on the rapper’s life.

Amaru Entertainment, the company set up by Shakur’s mother Afeni to release her son’s posthumous projects, and Shakur Estate trustee Tom Whalley, today announced that Nigel Sinclair‘s White Horse Pictures and Jayden Jackson will team up to create a fully authorised Tupac documentary.

The film will be helmed by 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen, who said in a statement: “I am extremely moved and excited to be exploring the life and times of this legendary artist… I attended NYU film school in 1993 and can remember the unfolding hip-hop world and mine overlapping with Tupac’s through a mutual friend in a small way. Few, if any shined brighter than Tupac Shakur. I look forward to working closely with his family to tell the unvarnished story of this talented man.

Shakur was killed in Las Vegas in 1996, aged 25.