Doctor Omega
Member: Rank 10
LAbyrinth
Director: Brad Furman (“Runner Runner,” “The Lincoln Lawyer”)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Forest Whittaker, Rockmond Dunbar, Shea Whigham, Neil Brown Jr.
Details: A film adaptation of Randall Sullivan’s non-fiction book of the same name, Brad Furman’s new drama looks at the police investigation of the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls and the corruption within the Los Angeles police department (the Rampart scandal) which the detective in charge of the investigation Russell Poole (played by Johnny Depp) was involved in.
Poole’s investigations led to Officer David Mack and his friend Amir Muhammad who were accused of being complicit in the murder. Poole was ordered to cease his investigations and he quit the department shortly after in protest. As a private investigator, he continued independently looking into the murder on his own over the years with a reporter (played by Forest Whitaker) coming onboard nearly two decades later to help. Should be an interesting true crime story.