# Aaron Paul To Play Music Mogul Jimmy Iovine In Universal’s ‘Snoop’; Giovanni Ribisi Also Set

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/aaron-paul-to-play-music-mogul-jimmy-iovine-in-universals-snoop-giovanni-ribisi-also-set/
- Published: 2026-11-09T18:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T20:42:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/11/snoop-biopic-cast-aaron-paul-giovanni-ribisi-1237216709/
- Topics: Film

## Key points

- Aaron Paul will play music executive Jimmy Iovine.
- Giovanni Ribisi is cast as lawyer David Kenner.
- Universal plans to release Snoop on 6 August 2027.

## Summary

Aaron Paul and Giovanni Ribisi have joined Universal Pictures’ Snoop, a biopic about Snoop Dogg. Their casting adds figures connected to the rapper’s early career and Death Row Records to a film that will draw on his music catalogue.

Paul will play Jimmy Iovine, whose Interscope Records distribution deal with Death Row helped bring Snoop’s early work to a wider audience. Ribisi will portray lawyer David Kenner, who represented Death Row in the late 1990s. Jonathan Daviss leads the cast as Snoop, and the film is scheduled for release on 6 August 2027, directed by Craig Brewer.

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