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Sabotage, Famous Brazilian Rapper, Will Have Life Story Recounted on Film

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Zazen, the production company of José Padilha, director of "Tropa de Elite" (Elite Squad), will shoot a movie on the life of rapper Sabotage, Mauro Mateus dos Santos Filho's stage name.

Budgeted at R$9 (US$2.2) million, the feature film is scheduled for release in 2020, the year marking the seventeenth anniversary of the singer's death.

On the morning of January 24th, 2003, Sabotage was shot four times on a public road, after leaving his wife, then a kitchen assistant, in her workplace.

His rhymes were charged with reality and inspired thousands . . .

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