Aaron Paul has been tapped to portray a key figure in the life of Snoop Dogg in the rapper’s upcoming biopic.
According to Deadline, the Breaking Bad alum has been cast as Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine, who had a hand in Snoop’s distribution deal with Death Row Records that brought the West Coast rap icon to the mainstream.
Also newly cast in the film, currently titled Snoop, is Giovanni Ribisi, known for roles in Saving Private Ryan, Avatar, and former comedy crime drama Sneaky Pete. The actor will play David Kenner, who represented Death Row in the late '90s and was among Snoop's lawyers during his heavily publicized murder trial. The trial ended in 1996 with Snoop and his security guard, McKinley Lee, being acquitted of first and second-degree murder.
The entertainers join an ensemble cast that includes Jonathan Daviss as Snoop, with Myles Bullock as Dr. Dre, Lauren London as Snoop's mother, Beverly Tate, Camron Jones as 2Pac, and Tre Hale as Suge Knight.
Brewer is working from his own rewrite of Joe Robert Cole's original script. Snoop is producing with Death Row Pictures president Sara Ramaker and Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum. The film is the debut project under Death Row Pictures' overall deal with NBCUniversal Entertainment. Principal photography began in Los Angeles in September.
Last year, Snoop pitched the project during Universal's CinemaCon presentation, describing the project as the follow-up to the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. Snoop is slated to come to theaters on Aug. 6, 2027.
