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A new extended Notorious trailer was released. The longer version of the Notorious trailer kind of looks like a MAD TV skit. Rest in peace B.I.G. Look for performances from Derek Luke as Puff Daddy, Angela Bassett as Volleta Wallace and Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur. The film is scheduled ofr theatrical released in January 2009.
According to the Hollywood Reporter Fox Searchlight has found the actor Jamal 'Gravy' Woolard to play the lead of slain rapper Biggie Smalls in the upcoming bio pic film "Notorious". The production company behind the film held an open casting call for unknown hopefuls. Click here to listen to Gravy's rhyming skills on his myspace page.
Derek Luke, Angela Bassett and Anthony Mackie also have been cast
in the movie, Searchlight said. Luke will play Biggie record
producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, who offscreen is an exec producer on
the film. Mackie will play rival rapper Tupac Shakur, while Bassett
will play Biggie's mother Voletta Wallace.
More than 100 Biggie wannabes, many of them nonpros and all with
the requisite size, turned out to show off their rapping and
impersonation skills.
Woolard, who also is known as Gravy, is not a total unknown. He has
released a number of albums, though he's perhaps best known for
being shot before a radio appearance outside the New York hip-hop
station Hot 97 two years ago, after which he proceeded with the
interview and became a part of hip-hop lore.
Like Biggie, Woolard was a drug dealer before he became a rapper.
He had released a number of albums on indie labels in the 1990s
before being signed by Warner Bros.
The movie directed George Tillman Jr. goes into production this month and will be released theatrically in January 2009.
Voletta Wallace cited "Jamal's charming personality, warm spirit,
wonderful sense of humor and beautiful smile" as reasons for the
casting. "He is a talented and charismatic actor, and I am excited
that he will bring Christopher's character to life," she
said. source