NWA Becomes Part Of The Hollywood Establishment With New Biopic?

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By Graeme McMillan

Published May 3, 2010

File under "I Must Be Getting Old," but New Line Studios is working with Ice Cube and one of Oliver Stone's scriptwriters to make a biopic of controversial rap group NWA. No, really.

I'm not sure which part of this news story is weirdest to me: Hollywood is making a biopic of rap group NWA, and it's being written by the (white) woman responsible for the script of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. It's not just me, right?

The movie, currently titled Straight Outta Compton, is being written by Andrea Berloff, a writer described by the Hollywood Reporter as being

known around town for tackling true-life stories. On top of "World Trade Center," she wrote "The Fugees," adapting a New York Times article for Universal, about a group of international refugee soccer kids who settle in Atlanta. She also is working on an adaptation of Mark Bowden's book "Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam," about the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, for HBO and producer Bill Horberg.

The movie is being made by New Line Studios, with former NWA member Ice Cube teaming with fellow member Eazy-E's widow Tomica Woods to produce. No director has been named yet.