SNOOP DOGG Biopic in the Works with WAKANDA FOREVER Writer Joe Robert Cole and Director Allen Hughes
Universal has announced that they are developing a biopic based on the life and career of rapper Snoop Dogg. The studio has hired Black Panther: Wakanda Forever co-writer Joe Robert Cole and director Allen Hughes, who with his brother Albert directed movies such as Menace II Society and Dead Presidents.
Snoop is said to be heavily involved with the project, which will incorporate music from his past catalog. He is also producing the feature along with Sara Ramaker and Hughes. The project will mark the inaugural film from Snoop’s Death Row Pictures, which he runs with Ramaker.
Snoop released a statement about the project, saying:
“I waited a long time to put this project together because I wanted to choose the right director, the perfect writer, and the greatest movie company I could partner with that could understand the legacy that I’m trying to portray on screen, and the memory I’m trying to leave behind. It was the perfect marriage. It was holy matrimony, not holy macaroni.”
Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., shot to fame in the early 1990s West Coast rap scene thanks to his collaborations with Dr. Dre and then his first and second albums, Doggystyle and The Doggfather. He parlayed that into a media and business empire, becoming an actor, DJ, and media personality as well as an entrepreneur with ties to technology, global consumer brands, food and beverage industries, and the cannabis world. He now collaborates closely with Martha Stewart as well.
With 35 million albums sold worldwide, he is a 17-time Grammy nominee, an American Music Award winner, and a Primetime Emmy Award winner. He has played himself in countless series and appeared in movies such as Training Day, Starsky & Hutch and this summer’s Jamie Foxx vampire action movie Day Shift.
I love a good biopic, and I grew up not too far from Snoop Dogg’s home, so I was surrounded by his music, and I still love it. I look forward to checking this out.
via: THR