Snoop Dogg's life and career to be told in biopic from Death Row Pictures and Universal Pictures

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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.

Snoop biopic in the works: Universal Pictures is developing a biopic film about the life and career of Snoop Dogg, 51, who will also serve as one of the producers along with Allen Hughes, who will also direct; the rapper is pictured in February 2020Snoop (born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.), 51, will also serve as one of the producers along with Hughes and Sara Ramaker, who helps run Snoop's Death Row Pictures that was born from the record label Death Row Records, 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.Showing his humorous side, the rapper added that 'it was the perfect marriage.