Aaron Paul and Giovanni Ribisi Join Snoop Dogg Biopic

Aaron Paul and Giovanni Ribisi have joined the cast of Snoop, the biopic of rapper Snoop Dogg from Universal Pictures, according to Deadline, which reported the casting on 9 November 2026.

Paul will play Jimmy Iovine, the music executive. Ribisi will play David Kenner, a celebrity and criminal defence attorney who represented Death Row Records, the record label behind many of the best-known West Coast hip-hop releases of the 1990s, in the late 1990s. Jonathan Daviss leads the film in the title role.

Complex also reported on 4 November 2026 that Lauren London and Algee Smith have been cast in the film. Complex did not describe their roles, so their parts remain unannounced.

Craig Brewer is directing. He worked from a rewrite of an original script by Joe Robert Cole. Snoop Dogg is one of the producers, alongside Sara Ramaker, Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum. Michael Beugg and Jeb Brody are executive producers.

Universal has set the film for release on 6 August 2027, a late-summer slot in the United States calendar. Studios tend to lock dates like this well in advance, so the film has roughly nine months of pre-release lead time after this announcement. Until then, the cast and crew are the main news on the project.

For a biopic, a cast list says a lot about the story being told. Iovine and Kenner sit on the business side of Snoop Dogg's career, not the stage, so the film will put the music industry and its deals in front of audiences as much as the performances. Casting for those roles is one of the first decisions that shapes how the story gets told on screen.