Tupac Doc Filmmakers Including Allen Hughes React To Murder Charge: “A Great Day For The Family”
30.09.2023 - 00:07
/ deadline.com
Duane Davis, a former gang member known as Keffe D, was indicted on one count of murder with a deadly weapon by a Nevada grand jury Friday.
The victim: Tupac Shakur.
It’s a case that has made national headlines since 1996 when it took place and has been the subject of a multitude of documentaries and scripted projects.
Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur, directed by Allen Hughes, one-time friend and one-time foe of Tupac’s, was the most high-profile recent series, having premiered in April. The series focuses on Tupac’s relationship with his mother Afeni, a Black Panther activist, rather than his death.
Hughes told Deadline that today was a “great day for the family.”
He revealed that when he was pitching the project around Hollywood, he had a different subtitle: This Is Not A Murder Investigation.
“[Dear Mama] was very matter of fact, very frank about what happened. There were no conspiracy theories. I interviewed tons of people and there were a lot of theories. But it wasn’t about that, it was about the magic of this kid as an artist and his relationship with his mother and their dynamic,” Hughes added.
Davis is the uncle of Orlando Anderson, who had been assaulted by Shakur and his pals in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Casino after the Mike Tyson fight. He wrote a memoir, Compton Street Legend, and has given many interviews that he was in the passenger seat of the car that later that night pulled up next to Shakur’s vehicle when Shakur was shot and later died.
“When there’s a constellation of unremarkable details that’s when you know someone’s telling the truth and that’s what it was with [Davis]. This is not make-believe,” Hughes said.
What does Hughes think Afeni Shakur, who died in 2016, would have made