Perhaps the coolest aspects of this trailer are the introduction by Cube and Dre, which hopefully makes it into the finished film somehow, and the increased presence of Paul Giamatti as manager Jerry Heller. Heller was at the center of the group's internal squabbles, and his attempts to screw Ice Cube out of owed money was the main reason why he left the group. In all this looks like as perfect of a film about N.W.A. as one could have hoped for with the cast spot-on in their portrayals and the music helping to capture the energized mood of the era. There was never another time quite like this in rap music and director F. Gary Gray seems to have hit on that.
Straight Outta Compton opens August 14th 2015, and chalk this up as one of my most anticipated movies of the year.
