Fox Searchlight has secured rapper Notorious B.I.G.'s life rights, selected Cheo Hodari Coker to write the biopic and is in negotiations with Antoine Fuqua to direct says The Hollywood Reporter.
Born Christopher Wallace, then taking the moniker Biggie Smalls because of his more than 6-foot, 400-pound frame before settling on alias Notorious B.I.G., the rapper's rise was meteoric. He went from a Brooklyn crack dealer to East Coast hip-hop sensation, helping establish Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy label as a hip-hop presence and aiding artists like Lil' Kim and wife Faith Evans.
Wallace was gunned down at the age of 24 at a Vibe magazine after-party outside L.A.'s Peterson Automotive Museum in March 1997. Eight years later, no one has been charged in the murder. Coker, a former writer at the New York Times, was the last person to interview the rapper before his murder.
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