Editing John Singleton (section)

===2010s: Unrealized projects===
[[File:John Singleton 2013.jpg|thumb|200px|Singleton in 2013]]
In 2011, Singleton was in talks with Ice Cube, who worked with Singleton on ''Boyz n the Hood'' and ''Higher Learning'', to direct a [[Straight Outta Compton (film)|biopic]] about Cube's rap group [[N.W.A.]] before [[F. Gary Gray]] was hired in August 2012. The film was released in 2015 to positive reviews and box office success.

Two years later, in 2013, Singleton was attached as the writer-director of a biopic about the life, career and death of rapper [[Tupac Shakur]]. On April 3, 2015, Singleton reported that production was put on hold.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/new-tupac-biopic-on-hold-says-director-john-singleton-20150403 |title=New Tupac Biopic 'On Hold,' Says Director John Singleton |author=Grow, Kory |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=April 3, 2015 |access-date=April 4, 2015 |archive-date=September 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901203012/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/new-tupac-biopic-on-hold-says-director-john-singleton-20150403 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Following creative differences with [[Morgan Creek Productions]], Singleton had stepped down as director, and was replaced by [[Carl Franklin]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thewrap.com/carl-franklin-to-replace-director-john-singleton-on-tupac-biopic/ | title=Carl Franklin to Replace Director John Singleton on Tupac Biopic | last=Donnelly | first=Matt | work=[[TheWrap]] | date=April 7, 2015 | access-date=April 7, 2015}}</ref> Singleton also stated he was planning on making a competing film about Tupac.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-singleton-exits-tupac-biopic-plans-competing-film-20150409 |title=John Singleton Exits Tupac Biopic, Plans Competing Film |magazine=Rolling Stone|date=April 9, 2015 }}</ref>

The film was eventually released in 2017 as ''[[All Eyez on Me (film)|All Eyez on Me]]'', which was negatively received by critics and audiences and Singleton himself, who intended to make his own biopic about Shakur as well as a biopic about the rap group [[Three 6 Mafia]], who worked with Singleton on ''Hustle & Flow'', prior to his death in 2019.