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EXCLUSIVE: Snoop Dogg is group to prima successful nan existent crime thriller God Of The Rodeo from director Rosalind Ross. Dogg and his Death Row Pictures partner, Sara Ramaker, besides person signed connected to nutrient nan existent crime thriller pinch Ross penning and directing. They will subordinate antecedently announced producers Giannina Scott who will nutrient for Cara Films and Ridley Scott who will nutrient done Scott Free Productions banner.
“Linking up pinch Scott Free Productions and moving pinch Ridley Scott and Giannina Scott connected God of nan Rodeo is life changing and an honor,” says Snoop Dogg. “Rosalind Ross brought a communicative pinch bosom and grit, and that’s what I’m about. Me and nan squad astatine Death Row Pictures stepping successful arsenic producers, I’m acting successful it, and Death Row Records is building nan soundtrack—and this 1 sewage soul… We’re bringing an important communicative and thing typical to nan screen. 👊🏾🎥🎬🔥”
The movie is based connected nan acclaimed reporting of Daniel Bergner wrong nan deadliest situation successful America’s South. Set against nan sadistic backdrop of Louisiana’s Angola Prison successful 1967, nan movie tells nan communicative of Buckkey, a hardened inmate serving a life condemnation who finds a glimmer of redemption successful an improbable opportunity: nan prison’s first-ever inmate rodeo. As Buckkey and his chap inmates hole for a past grasp astatine glory, they’re confronted pinch nan reality that nan rodeo is thing much than a gladiatorial showcase — a grueling conflict for endurance designed to satiate nan public’s bloodlust and fulfill nan warden’s wishful thinking of godliness.
“Snoop Dogg is 1 of nan astir talented and influential artists alive, pinch admirers and fans each complete nan world and from each procreation transcending music, sports and culture,” says Giannina Scott. “Ridley and I, pinch our companies Scott Free and Cara Films, are truthful excited and blessed to person Snoop subordinate nan cast, and for him, Sara and Death Row Pictures to partner pinch america to nutrient this important and soulful task from Rosalind Ross.”
“God of nan Rodeo is precisely nan benignant of collaboration we’re building towards astatine Death Row Pictures —bold, cinematic storytelling pinch existent taste weight,” says Ross. “Partnering pinch nan Scott Free Team lead by Ridley and Giannina, alongside Rosalind Ross’s vision, gives america nan opportunity to create thing powerful and authentic. This 1 speaks to legacy, resilience, and truth—and we’re proud to thief bring it to life.”
“It’s a thrill and an grant arsenic a filmmaker to bring nan legendary swagger, psyche and eccentricity of Snoop to this communicative successful what will beryllium a wholly transformative domiciled for him,” says Ross. “Moreover, I’m profoundly gratified by nan kindred creator tone and condemnation of origin that Snoop, Sara and Death Row Pictures person for this collaboration pinch myself, Giannina, Ridley, and nan remainder of our unthinkable producing team.”
Named 1 of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People successful 2025, Snoop continues to grow his bequest done Death Row Records and Death Row Pictures, a multi-year business pinch NBCUniversal. His high-profile taste effect includes serving arsenic a analogous during nan 2024 Paris Olympics and being named Team USA’s first-ever Honorary Coach for nan 2026 Winter Olympics.
Among Death Row Pictures flagship projects is nan highly anticipated Snoop Dogg biopic successful improvement astatine Universal Pictures, underscoring nan studio’s committedness to bringing powerful, existent stories to a world audience.
Snoop is represented by lawyer Stephen Barnes of Yorn Levine and WME. Ross is repped by Range Media Partners, Heroes and Villains Entertainment and Jackoway Austen. Scott Free Productions is repped by CAA.
