A Tupac Shakur Documentary is Heading to FX

Tupac Shakur. Photo by Eli Reed/Columbia/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5879699c)

FX greenlights a five-part series that tells the story of the artist and his activist mother. 

The network announced the project Tuesday at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California. 

Titled Outlaw: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur and directed by Allen Hughes, the docu-series will tell the story of Tupac Shakur and his mother, Afeni Shakur told by the people who knew them best.

“There’s a ton of music and a ton of material, but there’s also an unbelievably fascinating biography, which is really a biography about Tupac’s mother and father and how he grew up in various places with them,” FX CEO John Landgraf told reporters at TCA. “[Shakur] is a very fascinating man and a very complicated artist. I think the kinds of stories that appeal to us are the ones that have characters at the center of them but they’re also about humanity in a really broad way. They’re about big, profound ideas about art and society.”

The network also announced five more documentary projects.