Joe Robert: Last News

Snoop Dogg is set to produce a biopic about his own life. The 51-year-old rap legend has joined forces with Universal Pictures, director Allen Hughes and writer Joe Robert Cole to make the upcoming biopic. Snoop - who will produce alongside Allen and Sara Ramaker - said in a statement: "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.

On the heels of several successful musical biopics in recent years, Universal Pictures is now developing a film about rap superstar Snoop Dogg.The production, which will be the first under Snoop's newly formed Death Row Pictures, will incorporate music from his storied career that dates back to his initial appearance on Dr. Dre's The Chronic (1992) and his own hit solo studio debut, Doggystyle (1993).The co-writer of Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director, Joe Robert Cole, will pen the screenplay, while Allen Hughes, who with his brother Albert as the Hughes Brothers directed movies such as Menace II Society, Dead Presidents and The Book of Eli, is on board to direct.