Straight Outta Compton’s success last weekend has reportedly inspired Hollywood to make another film about West Coast rap legends, specifically following Tha Dogg Pound and Snoop Dogg.
This is all just a rumor at this point, but TMZ claims that it heard from Dogg Pound member Daz Dillinger about the project. He told the site that it will be about himself, Snoop, Nate Dogg, Kurupt and Warren G. It will be called Dogg Pound 4 Life.
The story will have to include Suge Knight, since Death Row Records was a major part of the story. However, he can’t be directly involved because of his ongoing legal problems.
It’s not clear if Universal is involved again, but TMZ claims that Dr. Dre and Ice Cube will not be involved and the same actors who played them in Compton won’t even be a part of the cast. It sounds like this project isn’t a sequel at all, but another movie about rappers hoping to cash-in on the success of Compton.
TMZ did report that Dr. Dre’s son, Curtis Young, is handling casting.
Compton has grossed over $80 million since its release last week. There had been rumors overnight that Cube and his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., who played his father in the film, were already in talks for a project about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, but those rumors were shot down.
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