Snoop Dogg To See Fillmore Slim

In the biopic in the Legend.... In the shocking and questionable bit of casting against type, Snoop Dogg just showed up the role of well-known San Francisco Bay Area pimp Fillmore Slim. He'll take that leap into the unknown when the Legend of Fillmore Slim goes before cameras next season. Slim - real title Clarence Sim cards - can be a proficient blues music artist who applied shoulders using the type of Etta James, BB King and Dinah Washington in early career inside the 19 fifties. Inside the 60s and 70s, however, because they never put within the towel playing the guitar, he appeared to become well known to as West Coast Godfather of the sport, as well as the Pope of Pimping, cruising Fillmore Street in the sharkskin suit together with a Cadillac. He estimations he worked out 8000 hookers over his entire reign. Arrested in 1980 (to get a forged passport) he spent five years in clink, and re-emerged while using blues once again. He's released several albums since. Joking aside then, it's a role that seems tailor-created for Snoop, specifically if you notice footage in the real Slim and note the uncanny resemblance (one prophetic wag inside the comments on that link describes Slim as Snoop Snr. ) Despite the fact that the type of Soul Plane and Starsky And Hutch haven't exactly given him the chance to flex his acting muscles, he did devote top quality be employed in Training Day. Slim's daughter Rebecca remains putting The Legend together, by utilizing executive producer Shelly Liebowitz and co-producers Alan Ames and Wayne Anderson. Ames may also be co-writing the script. Actor Hawthorne James will direct. "This film will span decades," states Ames, "from Slim's emergence just like a music artist, to the love for that short existence, through his years of incarceration and also the redemption. Ah, it'll be redemptive. Pre-production starts in December for just about any March 2012 shoot. The particular Fillmore Slim, now 77, is presently on tour.