City of Lies
City of Lies is a 2021 criminal thriller film about the Los Angeles Police Department’s investigations into the murders of musicians Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. [2]. Brad Furman directs the film, which is based on Randall Sullivan’s nonfiction book LAbyrinth. Christian Contreras wrote the screenplay. The film stars Johnny Depp as retired LAPD detective Russell Poole and Forest Whitaker as journalist Jack Jackson, with Rockmond Dunbar and Neil Brown Jr. also appearing. The film premiered in Italy on December 8, 2018, and was shown out of competition on the final day of the Noir in Festival. On January 10, 2019, it was released in limited numbers in Italy. It was initially scheduled to be published in the United States on September 7, 2018.It was removed off the calendar in August 2018 due to Global Road Entertainment’s closure. It was eventually acquired by Saban Films and released on March 19, 2021, with a PVOD release on April 9, 2021. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Plot (may contain spoilers!) In 2015, Darius “Jack” Jackson, an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is assigned to cover the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. He meets with Russell Poole, a retired and discredited Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective. In a sequence of flashbacks, Poole exposes his hypothesis that Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight bribed corrupt LAPD cops to murder Wallace and cover it up. Poole is assigned to investigate the shooting of off-duty black police officer Kevin Gaines by a white detective, read more Source
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City of Lies is a 2021 criminal thriller film about the Los Angeles Police Department’s investigations into the murders of musicians Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. [2]. Brad Furman directs the film, which is based on Randall Sullivan’s nonfiction book LAbyrinth. Christian Contreras wrote the screenplay. The film stars Johnny Depp as retired LAPD detective Russell Poole and Forest Whitaker as journalist Jack Jackson, with Rockmond Dunbar and Neil Brown Jr. also appearing.
The film premiered in Italy on December 8, 2018, and was shown out of competition on the final day of the Noir in Festival. On January 10, 2019, it was released in limited numbers in Italy. It was initially scheduled to be published in the United States on September 7, 2018.It was removed off the calendar in August 2018 due to Global Road Entertainment’s closure. It was eventually acquired by Saban Films and released on March 19, 2021, with a PVOD release on April 9, 2021. The film received mixed reviews from critics.
Plot
(may contain spoilers!)
In 2015, Darius “Jack” Jackson, an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is assigned to cover the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. He meets with Russell Poole, a retired and discredited Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective. In a sequence of flashbacks, Poole exposes his hypothesis that Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight bribed corrupt LAPD cops to murder Wallace and cover it up.
Poole is assigned to investigate the shooting of off-duty black police officer Kevin Gaines by a white detective,
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