Snoop Dogg Biopic Sets Release Date
Snoop Dogg’s life story is officially heading to the big screen. Universal Pictures has scheduled the forthcoming biopic, currently titled Snoop, for release in US cinemas on 6 August 2027—giving audiences plenty of time to locate their finest tracksuits and prepare the gin and juice. Billboard
Jonathan Daviss, best known as Pope Heyward in Netflix’s Outer Banks, will portray the young Calvin Broadus Jr. Daviss faces the considerable challenge of recreating one of popular culture’s most recognisable voices, walks and permanently relaxed expressions without appearing to have simply misplaced his bus home from a fancy-dress party.
Craig Brewer will direct and revise a screenplay originally written by Joe Robert Cole. Brewer is a comfortable choice for the job: his credits include Hustle & Flow and Dolemite Is My Name, films that understood music as something lived rather than merely played over an inspirational montage. Snoop previously appeared in Dolemite Is My Name, so the pair already know their way around the same cinematic smoke-filled room. Entertainment Weekly
Snoop will produce the film alongside Brian Grazer and Sara Ramaker. It is also the first project under Death Row Pictures’ partnership with NBCUniversal, giving the rapper unusual control over how his extraordinary journey is presented.
That journey begins in Long Beach and travels through the defining corridors of early-1990s West Coast hip-hop. Snoop’s languid performance on Dr. Dre’s “Deep Cover” introduced a voice that sounded almost impossibly unhurried, even when the beat was behaving like a police chase. His appearances on The Chronic followed before 1993’s Doggystyle turned him into a superstar.
The film has an enviable musical cupboard to explore: “Who Am I (What’s My Name)?”, “Gin and Juice”, “Murder Was the Case” and, from his later reinvention, “Drop It Like It’s Hot”. These were records that made G-funk feel less like a genre than an entire climate—warm basslines, high synthesiser whistles and car stereos working unpaid overtime.
Snoop has confirmed that the biopic will carry an adult rating, which is perhaps unsurprising. A sanitised account of Death Row Records would be rather like making a Motörhead film in which everybody drinks herbal tea and discusses sensible bedtime routines.
The August release also places Snoop in the same late-summer territory where Universal found enormous success with Straight Outta Compton in 2015. Snoop briefly appeared in that story, played by LaKeith Stanfield; this time, the camera belongs entirely to him.
More than three decades after Doggystyle, Snoop Dogg has become a rapper, label owner, television personality, Olympic ambassador and Martha Stewart’s most improbable companion. His biography already resembles several films accidentally stacked inside one another. In August 2027, Hollywood will finally attempt to roll them into a single feature.
