Universal’s Snoop Dogg biopic has filled one of its most important roles, casting Myles Bullock Be as Dr. Dre opposite Jonathan Daviss’ Snoop. The pairing puts faces to a relationship that will be difficult for Snoop to tell his story without, considering Dre’s role in introducing the Long Beach rapper to a national audience and helping establish the sound of his earliest years.

The Hollywood Reporter states that Bullock Be joins the project after appearing in Peacock’s Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, where he played Willie Black. That casting also reunites him with director Craig Brewer, who worked on the limited series. His other credits include White Men Can’t Jump, BMF, and Marvel’s Runaways. He is also a series regular in Hulu’s upcoming Prison Break: Black Creek.

Playing Dre places Bullock Be inside the period when Snoop’s career moved almost impossibly fast. Dre heard Snoop’s early demos and brought him into the sessions surrounding 1992’s The Chronic, where his appearances on records including “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” helped make his voice recognizable before he had even released an album of his own. Dre then produced Snoop’s 1993 debut, Doggystyle, which debuted at No. 1 and became one of the defining releases of West Coast Rap’s rise.

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Daviss, best known for playing Pope on Netflix’s Outer Banks, was announced as Snoop in 2025. Brewer is directing from a screenplay initially written by Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole, with Brewer handling the latest draft. The film will incorporate music from Snoop’s catalog, though Universal has not yet revealed how much of his life the story will cover.

Moreover, Snoop is producing alongside Brian Grazer, Death Row Pictures president Sara Ramaker, and Imagine Entertainment’s Allan Mandelbaum. The film is also the first feature to emerge from Death Row Pictures’ overall deal with NBCUniversal, giving Snoop a producing role in the Hollywood version of his own history rather than leaving the interpretation entirely to a studio.

Universal has set Snoop for an August 2027 theatrical release. With Daviss and Bullock Be now attached as Snoop and Dre, two of the central figures in the rapper’s emergence have been cast while the rest of the ensemble continues to take shape.

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