Given the box office success of Straight Outta Compton, it’s no surprise that Hollywood is looking to capitalise on the hip-hop market, and according to THR, agency APA has put together a package based upon S. Leigh Savidge’s book and documentary Welcome to Death Row, which it is shopping around as a sequel to Compton.
Welcome to Death Row charts “one of the most explosive and controversial periods in music history, when rappers like Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur forged mega-solo careers and Death Row Records’ Suge Knight reigned as the most powerful and feared hip-hop executive in the business.”
The $28 million-budgeted Straight Outta Compton has pulled in $145 million since its release in August, and is still to open in many international markets.
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Originally published September 4, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
