Snoop Dogg will star in the biopic “The Legend of Fillmore Slim” for Ames Universal and SRI Entertainment says Deadline.
Clarence ‘Fillmore Slim’ Sims is a blues singer and guitarist who was also a well-known pimp in San Francisco during the 60’s and 70’s. The story spans Slim’s emergence as a musician, to his years of incarceration and eventual redemption.
Alan Ames and Carole Parker co-wrote the screenplay while Ames and Wayne Anderson will produce. Hawthorne James will direct with shooting to kick off in March.
