Hutton is vague on the particulars of how the feud was resolved, only to say that he and Afeni came to an understanding. Yet two years later, the standoff ended and both suits were withdrawn, as Amaru and Morgan Creek decided to keep working together, despite the friction. The suit also alleged that unnamed Morgan Creek executives were complaining about the project being вЂњmessed up by a bunch of womenвЂќ - a reference to Afeni Shakur and her lawyer, Dina LaPolt. Amaru claimed that there wasnвЂ™t even a contract to begin with and countersued for $10 million, accusing Morgan Creek CEO James Robinson of trying to strong-arm a deal for the rights, then sabotaging the project when the company looked to set it up elsewhere. Things got ugly fast: In February 2009, Morgan Creek sued Amaru for breach of contract. The parties spent the rest of the year volleying back and forth over a potential agreement. In October 2008, Morgan Creek, the studio behind Ace Ventura, was added to the mix, with Hutton facilitating. By 2005, things picked up again, with studios like New Line, MTV Films, and the Weinstein Company lining up to secure the rights to ShakurвЂ™s story. But they soon tabled the idea in favor of a documentary, which became the Oscar-nominated Tupac: Resurrection. The rapperвЂ™s mother, Afeni, and her imprint, Amaru Entertainment, which controls the rights to TupacвЂ™s music and image, started making the rounds to studios to gauge interest in a biopic. The story of All Eyez on Me begins in 1997, one year after ShakurвЂ™s murder on the Las Vegas strip. The world will see on June 16 what I was doing and what I was fighting for.вЂќ has been able to work his way through it.вЂќДЄdds Hutton, вЂњI know for a fact that the fight that Tupac wanted me to fight, I fought it. вЂњThe fans expect a certain thing, the haters want to bring you down - and L.T. вЂњThis project was not easy to make,вЂќ says All Eyez on Me director Benny Boom. Like Hollywood Shuffle for Robert Townsend, I leveraged everything for this movie. вЂњI put it all on the line: house, cars,вЂќ he tells Vulture. In the meantime, Hutton, the filmвЂ™s lead producer, has had to do it all: beat back critics, allay fan concerns, and dip into his own pockets to finance the production. When it hits theaters on June 16, what would have been the rapperвЂ™s 46th birthday, it will mark the end of a complicated journey, one fraught with two multimillion-dollar lawsuits, a rotating door of writers and directors, a noncommittal estate, and a public thrashing from an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. Stories like these have been rattling around HuttonвЂ™s mind as he puts the finishing touches on the long-gestating Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me. You messed the kitchen up.вЂ™ He was like, вЂAww, I like you, I like your spirit.вЂ™вЂќ вЂњI said, вЂLet me explain something: YouвЂ™re not just gonna check me. At first, Hutton says, Shakur was incredulous about the dish-cleaning request.

Twenty-two years later, Hutton is sitting in a seventh-floor conference room in Beverly Hills, chuckling as he retells the story. Hutton says he walked over, introduced himself, and said, вЂњBrother, you just got out of jail, you went through a struggle, the record was dope.

Despite being signed to the same label, Hutton had yet to speak at length with Shakur, who was now standing in front of him, shirtless, frying up plates of sausage and bacon. It was 1995, Shakur had just been released from prison, and Hutton, then a young producer for Death Row Records, was living at Snoop DoggвЂ™s mansion in the San Gabriel Valley. Hutton woke to the sound of Tupac Shakur cooking breakfast. Photo: Vulture and Photo by Getty Images and Quantrell Colbert

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