How high do you have to be to be chosen to play Snoop Dogg in Craig Brewer’s upcoming biopic? We’ll have to ask Outer Banks actor Jonathan Daviss who won the role, according to a new report from Deadline.
Brewer, the filmmaker best known for directing Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, and Coming 2 America, only won the job days ago. An earlier version had Allen Hughes (Menace II Society) attached to direct. Universal Pictures is behind the Snoop Dogg biopic, which will chronicle how Calvin Broadus Jr. became such an integral part of the West Coast hip-hop scene as Snoop Doggy Dogg. Joining with Dr. Dre and Death Row Records, Snoop broke out with his laid back delivery on the 1992 album The Chronic. He would later release his smash debut album, Doggystyle, in 1993. Snoop would later distance himself from the gangsta rap persona that defined his early career, and become more mainstream to the point where you might see him on children’s programming, on WWE television, hanging out with Martha Stewart, or co-hosting the Olympics. His transformation has been wild.
The 25-year-old Daviss is best known for the Netflix YA drama Outer Banks. He was last seen in the Netflix teen comedy Do Revenge.
Universal is cornering the market on films about hip-hop icons, following 8 Mile with Eminem and Straight Outta Compton about Dr. Dre and N.W.A. Snoop has a relationship with NBCUniversal already as a judge on The Voice, and of course, he was a popular figure throughout the Paris Olympics.
