Universal Pictures has tapped Memphis-based director Craig Brewer to direct a film based on the life story of Snoop Dogg. Hollywood trade publication Deadline reports that the film is the first production by the recently formed Death Row Pictures, a new venture by the iconic record label which launched Snoop’s hip-hop career in the early 1990s. This will be the first of a slate of projects the newly formed production company with NBC/Universal.
Brewer will revise a script by writer Joe Robert Cole, who won a Writers Guild of America award for his work on The People vs. O.J. Simpson. Casting a lead actor for such an iconic and universally recognized figure as Snoop Dogg will certainly be challenging.
Brewer is currently in the final stages of recording the score for his current project, Song Sung Blue, in Memphis with longtime musical collaborator Scott Bomar. Song Sung Blue stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as Mike and Claire Sardina, a real-life couple from Milwaukee who gained fleeting fame as Neil Diamond and Patsy Cline impersonators under the stage name Lightning & Thunder. Song Sung Blue will be released by Focus Features on December 25, 2025.