Snoop Dogg is cooking up a “Planet of the Apes–”like sci-fi movie: 'Just imagine it was dogs instead of apes'
Take your stinking paws off me, you damn, dirty dog!
Snoop Dogg is making his own Planet of the Apes–inspired movie — but Doggystyle, of course.
The "Drop It Like It's Hot" rapper teased a number of forthcoming projects on Friday, including a science fiction movie that he says is heavily influenced by the film franchise.
"I can't really give up the storyline, but I'm going to [share] the idea," he said in an interview with Variety. "I love Planet of the Apes. Planet of the Apes made me wait too long to see the next one."
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Snoop DoggSince the seven-year gap between 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes and 2024's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was too much to bear, Snoop took matters into his own hands. "I’m going to do something in that vein, where you don't have to wait," he said. "But just imagine it was dogs instead of apes."
Snoop's proposal is simultaneously easy and hard to imagine. It's pretty straightforward to picture a world where humans are all but extinct and man's best friend roams the Earth unleashed to do whatever doggy business their hearts desire. The harder part of the equation is figuring out how four-legged creatures could build any semblance of their own society, culture, or technology without opposable thumbs, even if they had an enhanced intelligence.
Would the dogs ride horses and fire machine guns like the primates do in the Apes movies? Have they asserted their dominance over bigger, smarter animals, or has every species more evolutionarily complex than canines been wiped out? Are we talking real dogs with CGI mouths, or classically trained thespians going to dog school to perform motion capture? The mind reels.
If this project ever sees the light of day, it seems incredibly likely that it'd end up with a self-aware comedic tone similar to the R-rated doggy comedy Strays, especially with Snoop embracing his status as a walking meme-slash-brand. But imagine how satisfying it would be to see another sci-fi movie series treated with the same grim, humorless approach as the Apes films. Give us an Apes-Doggs rivalry! Let them fight!
This isn't the first time that Snoop has spoken publicly about his affection for the Apes franchise. In May, the rapper posted an Instagram story showing himself getting duped into watching a cheap Planet of the Apes knockoff on Tubi when he thought he'd fired up Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which had hit theaters two weeks before.
"This is some straight bulls---," he said. "I went to Tubi thinking I was finna watch the motherf---ing Planet of the Apes 2024, and this s--- comes on. Look at this bulls---! They got me!" The film in question appeared to be the 2017 movie Empire of the Apes.
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