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Sounds like Sly’s sold his latest to the first bidder.
The genre king’s long-gestating film based on the murder of rapper, the Notorious B.I.G., is coming to the tube, not the 50-foot-movie screen, as Sage’s pop originally intended.
According to The NY Daily News and Stallone Zone, Sly is still penned in to play LAPD homicide Detective Russell Poole in the movie, only now it’s going to air on HBO, not at the local multiplex.
Poole, who probed the Brooklyn-born rapper’s still-unsolved murder, was the first investigator to suggest that crooked cops with ties to rival rap label Death Row Records might be mixed up in the hefty one’s 1997 slaying.
The bold crimefighter later quit the force just shy of 20 years on the job, publicly alleging that former L.A. Police Chief Bernard Parks and other department big-wigs had squashed his efforts to probe cop corruption and the truth about Biggie’s slaying.
Mikko Alanne, who is penning the script for HBO, found himself in the hot seat when "facts" he put in memos to his bosses conflicted with the sworn testimony of another cop he interviewed for the project, Detective Wayne Caffey.
The screenwriter testified that Caffey told him "LAPD has confirmed the existence of a videotape" in which Death Row honcho Marion (Suge) Knight and corrupt L.A. cops David Mack and Rafael Perez are heard discussing "a hit on Biggie Smalls."
But Caffey testified that although the tape’s existence had been rumored and investigated, no tape was ever found.
"In a version of the script you had Poole killing two gang members, didn’t you?" she queried with a smirk.
Alanne replied that he had initially been told to jazz up the story, but later "got a mandate from HBO to make the script more realistic."
Biggie’s family’s lawyers were disappointed to hear that no one in LAPD seems to know what happened to the photo.
After this baby (no title’s mentioned, but it was previously known as "Notorious"), Sly’s tackling the "Poe" biopic.
Thanks to ‘AB King’
