Snoop Dogg is ready so as to add one other feather to his cap by teaming up with Luc Besson for a sci-fi film titled The Final Man, during which the rapper will star and function a co-producer.
Final month, Snoop teased that he was engaged on a movie “within the vein” of Planet of the Apes — however with “canine as an alternative of apes.” This description matches up with as we speak’s Selection report about The Final Man.
Besson will pen the screenplay, which is predicted to take cues from his 1997 cult traditional The Fifth Component by mixing sci-fi with comedy and motion. Filming is scheduled to start in 2025.
The Final Man is co-produced by Virginie Besson-Silla and Luc Besson for EuropaCorp with Snoop Dogg and Sara Ramaker by means of their Loss of life Row Footage banner.
“I’ve been an enormous fan of Snoop Dogg’s music ever since ‘Who Am I,’” stated Besson. “We first met 20 years in the past, and we’ve at all times wished to work collectively once more. We simply wanted the appropriate challenge that might excite us each — and that is it, with Snoop within the lead function. I can’t wait to get began!”
Snoop stated the admiration was mutual: “Ever since I’ve seen The Skilled, I’ve at all times wished [Luc] to direct a complete film for me. Now we lastly get the chance for him to write down and direct me in a Luc Besson film.”
The challenge isn’t Snoop Dogg and Besson’s first time working collectively. Again in 2006, the artist voiced Max within the animated fantasy movie Arthur and the Minimoys, which Besson directed and co-wrote.
Besson is at the moment engaged on Dracula: A Love Story, the most recent adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel starring Caleb Landry Jones and Christoph Waltz.
In the meantime, Snoop Dogg is gearing up for his upcoming album, Missionary, that includes the Sting duet “One other A part of Me.” Pre-order your copy right here forward of its launch this Friday, December thirteenth.