Director Craig Brewer On Connections To Straight Outta Compton

Snoop Dogg is getting his very personal biopic celebrating his 30-plus-year profession and life, which director Craig Brewer says will create some connections to the Oscar-nominated hit Straight Outta Compton. Improvement on the brand new biopic kicked off in June 2025 with Brewer, identified for helming the Oscar-winning Hustle & Move and the Golden Globe-nominated Dolemite Is My Title, signing on to direct and revise a script from Black Panther‘s Joe Robert Cole.

Now, in an interview with ScreenRant‘s Liam Crowley for his newest biopic Track Sung Blue, Brewer opened up in regards to the upcoming Snoop Dogg biopic. When requested whether or not the movie can be set in the identical universe as 2015’s Straight Outta Compton, by which the artist appeared performed by Play Soiled‘s LaKeith Stanfield, Brewer clarified that his movie might be a “completely different interpretation” of Dogg’s life, however nonetheless will “undoubtedly [have] numerous the connections” to the earlier movie.

Praising Snoop Dogg as having “an ideal story,” notably “in his formative years when he was 19,” Brewer mentioned his biopic is “actually going to dive into” that space of its central determine’s life. The director additionally confirmed that Outer Banks alum J.D., who was solid as Dogg days after Brewer’s hiring, is actively getting ready to change into the musical artist:

I used to be simply speaking with him the opposite day. I feel you are going to be actually stunned with a few of the tales that Snoop hasn’t informed anyone.

Snoop Dogg’s look in Straight Outta Compton was a comparatively transient one, showing just a little after the film’s halfway level as Corey Hawkins’ Dr. Dre left N.W.A. to co-found Dying Row Information with Suge Knight, The D.O.C. and Dick Griffey. This, in flip, led to him collaborating with different rappers, specifically Tupac and Dogg, whose look within the movie noticed him and Dre engaged on one in all their most iconic tracks, “Nuthin’ however a ‘G’ Thang”.

Given his time with Dying Row Information was additionally the beginning of his music profession, it is comprehensible that there can be some overlap between Straight Outta Compton‘s story and Brewer’s biopic, particularly since Common Photos is behind each movies. Nevertheless, with the director confirming that there might be a unique interpretation of it, it appears unlikely that any stars from the 2015 film will reprise their roles, as Brewer will seemingly search for new actors to play Dre, Knight and others.

With Brewer additionally indicating that the Snoop Dogg biopic might be extra centered on his youthful life than later stardom, the movie can even discover itself tackling a few of the artist’s tougher years. Each previous to breaking out as a rapper and after the very fact, Dogg was caught up in quite a lot of authorized points, together with a homicide investigation that he was later acquitted of, which he mentioned on the time led to his transferring away from a gang-driven way of life. Contemplating some biopics see backlash for going the safer route, it sounds as if Dogg’s need for actuality will make his a refreshing one.

Birthdate

October 20, 1971

Birthplace

Lengthy Seaside, California, USA

Peak

6 toes 4 inches

Professions

Rapper, Actor, Producer, Entrepreneur, Media Character

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