The year 2022 will have been a great year for Snoop Dogg. Last February, the American rap legend bought his former label Death Row Records, released his 19th album and performed at the Super Bowl halftime. Today, Deadline announces that a biopic on his life, his work and his extravagant career is currently in preparation at Universal. stoned, or more recently in Day Shift with Jamie Foxx on Netflix. For this future project, the rapper will put on the cap of producer, since it will be the first production of his creative label Death Row Pictures. It is Allen Hughes, to whom we owe the thriller Menace II Society, who will direct the film written by Joe Robert Cole, the co-screenwriter of the two parts of Black Panther. It is not yet known who will interpret the rapper. It should be noted, however, that in NWA: Straight Outta Compton, the 2015 biopic on the cult group, it was Lakeith Stanfield who had the role of the singer. . Some, however, are more intriguing than others. This is the case of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, the biopic on the whimsical accordionist and humorist played by Daniel Radcliffe, and of course this future project on Snoop Doggy Dogg by Snoop Doggy Dogg, which also delights the main interested party: see also on Konbini“I waited a very long time before making this project happen because I wanted to find the right filmmaker, the perfect screenwriter, and the best possible production company to collaborate with. They all had to understand the legacy I want to bring to the screen and what I’m trying to leave behind. There, it is the perfect marriage. It was holy matrimony, not holy macaroni.”
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