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Biggie Smalls Story Coming to Big Screen

Wendy Aron, 03.06.2008, 10:30 AM

(EZ-Tracks) - The story of Biggie Smalls is coming to the silver screen. The late rap icon, a.k.a. Notorious B.I.G., will be played by New York rapper Jamal Woolard in the upcoming Fox Searchlight biopic “Notorious,” according to a Reuters report. Derek Luke, Angela Bassett and Anthony Mackie also have been cast in the movie, according to the report. Directed by George Tillman Jr. ("Soul Food"), it goes into production this month and is set for release in January. Luke ("Catch a Fire") will play Biggie record producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, who off-screen is an executive producer on the film. Mackie ("Brother to Brother") will play rival rapper Tupac Shakur, while Bassett ("Akeelah and the Bee") will play Biggie's mother Voletta Wallace. The production had held an open casting call last fall in hopes of finding the next “big thing.” Woolard, a virtual unknown, was chosen out of a field of over 100 wannabes. Like Biggie, he was a drug dealer before he became a rapper. Biggie, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was killed in an unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in 1997.

Eleven years have gone by since Biggie was killed. It’s hard to believe that this case still hasn’t been solved.

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