straight outta com

1. Writing Credits
Jonathan Herman - (screenplay) and
Andrea Berloff - (screenplay)
S. Leigh Savidge - (story) &
Alan Wenkus - (story) and
Andrea Berloff - (story)
N.W.A.: The World's Most Dangerous Group – This was a documentary that
initially inspired some interest into the idea of making a fully feature length film
about NWA.
Straight outta Compton was initially a 150 page script that got developed and
changed throughout filming especially by the director.
Legendary Entertainment and New Line Cinema are the production companies
for this film. Other films produced by New Line Cinema is creed and It.
Legendary Entertainment have produced films like Inception, the dark knight
trilogy.
The producers of straight outta Compton were Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, F.Gary Grey,
Matt Alvarez, Scott Bernstein, Tomica Woods-Wright (Eazy-E’s wife). Other films
produced by Ice Cube is Ride along, Next Friday, Are we there yet?.
The main cast includes:
O'Shea Jackson Jr. ... Ice Cube
Corey Hawkins ... Dr. Dre
Jason Mitchell ... Eazy-E
Neil Brown Jr. ... DJ Yella
Aldis Hodge MC Ren
Marlon Yates Jr. ... D.O.C.
Paul Giamatti ... Jerry Heller
The director is F. Gary Grey who’s directed some music videos like ice cubes
‘It was a good day’ and the film ‘Friday’ so he had a track record of previous
success.
All the music in the sound track is from the members of NWA or people
who’ve collaborated with members of NWA.
They filmed lots of the film in the same areas that real events took place like
Compton but most of it was filmed in LA and California
The casting was done by having many people audition for the roles and being
shortlisted in groups to then see who had the best chemistry together as a
group. The cast included Ice Cubes son O’shey Jackson Jr.
The budget is from $28–50 million

2. There were some re writes which didn’t include some parts of Dr. Dre’s story
and Ice cubes story and showed more parts of Eazy-E’s story.
These are the cameras used in Straight outta Compton-
Red Epic Dragon, Cooke Anamorphic/i, Kowa Prominar, Zeiss Super Speed,
Lightweight, Fujinon Alura, Angenieux Optimo and Optimo 2S Lenses
Universal Pictures were the straight outta Compton distributers.
The film had a 15 age rating however the directors cut has a 18 age rating