The most surprising part of this story is not that a documentary is being made about 2Pac’s murder. It is that the director, Marian Mohamed, wants audiences to laugh.
“I want this film to make people laugh and cry and argue,” Mohamed said in a statement, which is a genuinely unexpected goal for a film about one of hip-hop’s most painful unsolved cases finally reaching a verdict nearly 30 years later.
Propagate Content and Passion Pictures have greenlit the untitled project, which will follow the conviction of Duane “Keffe D” Davis for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon on August 31 and is facing up to life in prison when he is sentenced on October 13.
Mohamed has been clear about what she wants the film to actually be. “I want this film to give a voice to a family who are not just grieving, but who have taken back agency in how the murder of 2Pac is viewed,” she said, framing the documentary less as a crime recap and more as something centred on the people who lived through the loss.
Tupac’s brother Mopreme Shakur is among those confirmed to contribute, alongside other members of Shakur’s inner circle and family.
The film will also feature never-before-seen footage connected to the case, which should give it something beyond the timeline most fans already know by heart.
From the production side, Propagate Content co-CEO Howard T. Owens described the project as taking audiences “inside this extraordinary moment with the people who have lived with the questions, the loss, and the search for answers from the very beginning.”
That framing positions it as something more personal than a standard true-crime recap, though how much new ground it actually covers remains to be seen.
Davis was arrested in September 2023 after prosecutors built a case around his role as the alleged orchestrator of the attack.
The motive, according to prosecutors, traced back to the same night Shakur was shot, September 7, 1996, when Davis’s nephew Orlando Anderson was jumped by Death Row associates and Bloods members following a Mike Tyson fight. Shakur died six days after the shooting, at 25 years old.
What made Davis’s case unusual from the start was how openly he had discussed his proximity to the murder long before charges were ever filed.
He wrote about his affiliations in a 2019 memoir and made multiple media appearances over the years that prosecutors later used against him. Twenty-four witnesses were called over two weeks of trial before the jury returned its verdict.
The documentary is set to air in 2027 on Sky Documentaries and NOW, giving the production team time to work in Davis’s sentencing and whatever follows.
With the sentencing still ahead and the full scope of the trial fresh, there is clearly more of this story left to play out before cameras even start rolling in earnest.
