GODFATHER - JAY-Z'S PLANS FOR AMERICAN GANGSTER: THE MUSICAL?

JAY-Z'S PLANS FOR AMERICAN GANGSTER: THE MUSICAL?

Hip-hop mogul SHAWN 'JAY-Z' CARTER is planning to turn his forthcoming album into a movie musical - and wants it to be shot in the same style as the GODFATHER. The 99 Problems star was so inspired by Denzel Washington's upcoming film American Gangster, he took the idea of the 1970s crime thriller and turned it into an LP of the same name. And now he wants his lyrical interpretation of the Ridley Scott-directed movie to make it to the big screen - albeit an edgier, more 'street' version. He tells AllHipHop.com, "What I really plan to do is shoot (American Gangster, the album) as a movie. Like a better Streets is Watching (Carter's 1998 video compilation). "Doing it like a musical. Real stories and get somebody in there that's (going do to)… real writing. Someone to shoot it like Godfather. I know that's a little ungracious, but that's how you gotta place it..."