Overview
- Snoop Dogg, whose casting was announced Wednesday by Deadline, will both star in God of the Rodeo and produce it through Death Row Pictures.
- Rosalind Ross will write and direct, with Giannina Scott producing for Cara Films and Ridley Scott producing through Scott Free Productions.
- Death Row Records will build the soundtrack, positioning Snoop’s companies to shape the film both on screen and in music.
- The story adapts Daniel Bergner’s reporting on Louisiana’s Angola Prison, focusing on the prison’s first inmate rodeo in 1967 that is portrayed as a brutal public spectacle.
- Snoop’s exact role has not been revealed, and while some outlets repeat earlier reports that Shia LaBeouf will play the inmate Buckkey, others note his current attachment remains unconfirmed.