LOS ANGELES, June 6 (UPI) -- Sylvester Stallone is writing and will direct and star in a film about corruption in the LAPD and the murders of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
Daily Variety reported Friday Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures will produce the picture.
Stallone is eyeing a Sept. 1 production start for the drama, which threads together a number of controversial recent events.
Stallone will play a real-life LAPD detective, Russell Poole. The flick, tentatively titled, "Rampart Scandal," will be told from different perspectives, in the vein of "Rashomon," and begins with Poole's investigation of the murders of rappers Shakur and Smalls. It follows Poole -- who vows to Smalls' mother he'll finger her son's killer -- as he unravels the intrigue and coverups surrounding the crime.
