According to Deadline, Jonathan Daviss — best known for his role as Pope in Outer Banks — took the stage at CinemaCon alongside Snoop Dogg himself to officially unveil his casting in an untitled Snoop biopic directed by Craig Brewer. Details on the project remain scarce, but the two appearing together in Las Vegas sent a clear signal: this one is real, and it's coming.
Why This Casting Has the Fan Community Buzzing
Snoop Dogg's life story is genuinely cinematic — from Long Beach street corners to Death Row Records, from a murder trial to a Super Bowl halftime show and an Olympic torch. A biopic covering even a fraction of that arc is going to need a sprawling, carefully assembled ensemble. That means roles for Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, Suge Knight, Warren G, Nate Dogg, and a roster of West Coast hip-hop figures who shaped an era. For fancasters, this is basically a dream project: high-profile, loaded with iconic supporting characters, and with no official cast beyond Daviss to second-guess yet.
Daviss is a genuinely interesting choice — a young actor with real dramatic chops who hasn't yet carried a film of this magnitude. It's the kind of swing that defined biopics like Straight Outta Compton, which launched careers precisely because the studio bet on hungry, authentic performers over established names. Craig Brewer, who directed Hustle & Flow and Coming 2 America, knows how to work with music-driven material and ensemble casts, which bodes well.
What myCast Fans Are Already Saying
The Snoop biopic doesn't have its own myCast story yet — which means right now is the perfect moment to build one from scratch and stake your claim on the supporting cast before the internet catches up. Who plays Dre? Who captures Tupac? These are the conversations that are about to take over every hip-hop and film corner of the web, and myCast is where that debate belongs.
In the meantime, fans of Jonathan Daviss have already been active on the platform through his Outer Banks work. Over on Outer Banks, fans have cast the show's ensemble with some intriguing choices — Jenna Ortega picked for Kiara Carrera and Sabrina Carpenter tapped for Sarah Cameron stand out as particularly fun alternate-universe picks. A separate imagines as John B and as Kiara, showing just how much range fans see when they look at these roles.