By Snoop Dogg to portray his ‘legacy’ in new movie
Snoop Dogg is the next music legend to receive a film, as Universal Pictures is gearing up for a film about the rap superstar.
The production will incorporate music from Snoop’s career, dating back to his appearance on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic (1992) and his solo studio debut, Doggystyle.
This will be the first under Snoop’s newly formed Death Row Pictures, will
The co-writer of Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director, Joe Robert Cole, is at the of the screenplay, while Allen Hughes is on board to direct.
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.), 51, or quite simply, Snoop Dogg, will also serve as one of the producers along with Hughes and Sara Ramaker, who helps run Snoop’s Death Row Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
‘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,’ Snoop said in a statement on Wednesday.
The rapper added that ‘it was the perfect marriage. It was holy matrimony, not holy macaroni.’
Snoop purchased the Death Row brand earlier this year from MNRK Music Group, which is controlled by private equity group Blackstone, according to Deadline.
‘I wanted to be the CEO of Death Row Records and basically take over the merchandise and rerelease their music, do documentaries, and possibly do my life story,’ they said in December.
Snoop met with Universal chairman Donna Langley , who said she ‘had the opportunity to hear [Snoop’s] story in his own words.’
‘We are humbled to be able to create the lasting document of this singular artist,’ Langley said.
(Image:SnoopDogg/Instagram)
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