One, two, three, and to the 4, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Craig Brewer is on the door.

Common Footage has enlisted the Hustle & Circulation filmmaker to direct a biopic about Snoop Dogg, the pioneering West Coast rapper, Leisure Weekly has confirmed. Brewer will revise a screenplay penned by Joe Robert Cole, the author recognized for his work on Black Panther and The Individuals vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

Snoop, who beforehand acted in a supporting position in Brewer’s Dolemite Is My Title, will produce the movie alongside Brian Grazer and Sara Ramaker. Snoop was beforehand depicted in one other Common hip-hop biopic: the 2015 hit Straight Outta Compton, which adopted the rise of N.W.A and featured LaKeith Stanfield because the “Drop It Like It is Sizzling” musician.

Menace II Society co-director Allen Hughes was beforehand connected to direct the Snoop biopic.

After making his characteristic directorial debut with 2000’s The Poor & Hungry, Brewer rose to prominence along with his sophomore characteristic, 2005’s Hustle & Circulation. The movie, which adopted an aspiring rapper, received the Oscar for Greatest Authentic Track (for Frayser Boy, Juicy J, and DJ Paul’s observe “It is Arduous out Right here for a Pimp”), and likewise landed a Greatest Actor nomination for star Terrence Howard.

Brewer then helmed 2006’s Black Snake Moan, a black comedy starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake. The movie continued the director’s emphasis on music, as Jackson’s character within the movie was a blues guitarist.

Brewer’s subsequent characteristic was 2011’s Footloose, a remake of the 1984 basic about an outsider introducing dance to a conservative small city. 

The filmmaker spent a lot of the 2010s specializing in the small display, most notably reuniting with Howard on the favored hip-hop Fox collection Empire, on which he served as a director and producer on quite a few episodes.

Brewer helmed his first biopic with 2019’s Dolemite Is My Title, which starred Eddie Murphy as blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore. Brewer reteamed with Murphy on Coming 2 America, a long-in-the-works sequel to the basic 1988 comedy Coming to America.

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The filmmaker’s newest characteristic, Track Sung Blue, stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as musicians in a Neil Diamond tribute band. The movie is scheduled to hit theaters on Christmas day.

A 16-time Grammy nominee, Snoop Dogg rose to fame upon collaborating with Dr. Dre on the producer’s 1992 solo album, The Persistent, and his personal 1993 debut album, Doggystyle. He has launched 21 studio albums to date, and has additionally acted in a lot of motion pictures, together with Coaching Day and The Seaside Bum.