Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) will take on a biopic of slain rapper Tupac Shakur as his next project.  Speaking to the Digital Spy, Fuqua said:

“It looks like we’re doing Tupac Shakur’s movie next in September, that’s what I’ve been starting up and working on now.  I’ve been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and Jim Robinson. I just got the greenlight from him and we’re going in September. I’ve just started to prep that.”

It will be interesting to see how Fuqua approaches Tupac’s feud with Notorious BIG in comparison to how George Tillman Jr. told it from BIG’s perspective in last year’s Notorious.  As to the rumor that Fuqua would be re-teaming with his Tears of the Sun star Bruce Willis for the prison break drama The Tomb, the director said, “That’s a conversation I’ve been having with Bruce.”  Fuqua is also attached to direct an adaptation of the spy thriller novel Consent to Kill. A documentary of Shakur’s life, 2003′s Tupac: Resurrection, was nominated for an Oscar.

As we reported back in January, Keanu Reeves is teaming up with Pursuit of Happyness director Gabrielle Muccino for the sci-fi love story Passengers.  Today, with the selling of rights over the film, new details have come to light.  With a budget of $90 million, the producers are saying the film is like “Adam & Eve in Space.”  Allow me to weave THR‘s synopsis with what we already knew: Set in the future on an interstellar spaceship, a mechanic (Reeves) accidentally awakens from pod hibernation 20 years into a 120-year journey and gets lonely and only has “robots and androids” for company.  That is until he decides he doesn’t want to die alone and wakes up a female passenger.

Hit the jump for more details on the project and my slightly-less-than-positive reaction to them.