With Universal Pictures, a Snoop Dogg biopic is now under production.
According to Variety, the studio has chosen Menace II Society and Dead Presidents director Allen Hughes to helm the movie from a script by Black Panther: Wakanda Forever co-writer Joe Robert Cole. The undertaking will be Snoop’s Death Row Pictures’ debut production.
“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. “It was the perfect marriage. It was holy matrimony, not holy macaroni.”
Hughes has already addressed the emergence of gangsta rap on film. The Defiant Ones, an award-winning HBO documentary Hughes directed in 2017, centered on the collaboration between Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre at Interscope. Hughes is also the creator of the upcoming five-part Hulu series Dear Mama, which follows the relationship between Tupac Shakur and his mother.
“Snoop Dogg is one of the most internationally beloved figures in hip-hop. There’s just something about his energy that brings people of all walks of life together,” Hughes said in a press statement. “Snoop Dogg, not just the artist, but the man and his brand, has transcended generations with his connection and appeal to audiences. His story is so authentic and utterly inspiring, and to have the opportunity to tell his story allows me to go back to the hood 30 years after ‘Menace II Society,’ and say more now than I could then.”