Snoop Dogg to star in and produce sports activities comedy movie ‘The Underdoggs’
Snoop Dogg is about to star in The Underdoggs, a comedy movie primarily based on an unique idea he pitched along with his producing associate, Constance Schwartz-Morini.
In line with Deadline, the movie has since been picked up by the manufacturing firm Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Black-ish creator Kenya Barris has signed-on to co-produce the movie alongside the rapper, whereas Drumline‘s Charles Stone will direct it, primarily based off a screenplay by Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis.
Snoop primarily based The Underdoggs‘ synopsis on his personal expertise as a youth soccer coach, centring the movie round a former NFL participant who agrees to handle a kids’s soccer crew to keep away from time in jail. A theatrical launch for the movie is scheduled for October 2023.
In a press release, Snoop stated the movie was a “actual private venture” for him, referencing his decade-and-a-half run teaching soccer with the Snoop Youth Soccer League, which he began with Schwartz-Morini.
“Giving again to the neighborhood by soccer has taught us so many invaluable life classes that we’ve been in a position to share with children in related conditions like mine once I was rising up,” he added. “My hope is that this film will make clear the realities that youngsters and adults face within the hood and throughout the advanced world of soccer.”
The Underdoggs will add to Snoop’s sizeable record of earlier movie involvements, having appeared in fellow comedies Brüno, Starsky & Hutch and Mac & Devin Go to Excessive Faculty, the final of which co-starred his longtime music collaborator Wiz Khalifa. Elsewhere, Snoop includes the solid of Day Shift, an upcoming Netflix comedy starring Jamie Foxx.
Barris, in the meantime, is gearing up for the September premiere of Entergalactic, a musical animation created by Child Cudi, primarily based across the rapper’s upcoming album of the identical identify.
On the music entrance, Snoop Dogg this yr launched ‘BODR’, his nineteenth studio album, that includes assists from Nas, The Sport and Khalifa, amongst others. Extra lately, Snoop joined forces with Eminem for the June single ‘From The D 2 The LBC’. The pair beforehand collaborated as a part of this yr’s Tremendous Bowl Halftime efficiency alongside Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar.
This week, Benny Blanco shared a teaser for ‘Unhealthy Resolution’, which additionally options Snoop and BTS. The collaboration is about for launch in the present day (August 5), and marks the primary single from Blanco’s upcoming, presently untitled album.