Snoop Dogg is ready to go into the house.
As previously reported, the rapper has teamed up with Eli Roth for his upcoming horror movie, “Don’t Go in That House, Bitch!,” as a producer of the film as well as its soundtrack.
Now comes word from Roth that Snoop Dogg will star in the movie.
“He’s been wanting to do Death Row Films for a long time,” Roth told me Thursday night at the Bvlgari Eternal Vimini party at the luxury jewelry house’s Rodeo Drive flagship. “I said we need to make the ultimate haunted house movie, like the craziest one, something that mixes “House,” “House by the Cemetery,” “Hausu” and “Friday, the 13th,” like something so insane people can’t believe it exists. And we gave to call it, ‘Don’t Go in That House, Bitch!’ And he’s and he’s going to star in it.”
Roth, who released a fake trailer for the movie in August, said that he finished the script over the holidays. No other cast has signed on just yet.
“People keep going in the house. People don’t listen. What are you doing, bitch? Don’t go in that house,” Roth said. “People just keep going in. Like, what are you doing? You’re not going to come out of there. Don’t do it. Turn around. Leave! It’s basically everything that we yell at the screen during horror movies. You put those as characters in the movie like a Greek chorus.”
Shooting is expected to kick off in June.
“We’re budgeting now,” Roth said. “I’m going to apply for the California tax credit. If I get the tax credit, I want to shoot it in Los Angeles so we can have all L.A. people on it.”
Snoop is also contributing music to Roth’s next film, “Ice Cream Man.” “He sent me some score — not hip-hop, but actual score. I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is incredible.’…So we have a whole section of the movie that’s completely scored by Snoop.”
He also wrote an “Ice Cream Man” song that Roth is hoping to use during the end credits.
Roth and Snoop collaborated on the rapper’s 2012 “La La La” music video, which Roth directed.
Meanwhile, Roth also provided an update on the much-anticipated sequel to his hit 2023 movie “Thanksgiving.” Production has been postponed because star Addison Rae is on her concert tour and co-star Milo Manheim just signed to topline the live-action adaptation of “Tangled.” “Everybody wants to do it. I’m gonna have it locked and loaded, and we’ll find a time when we’re all available,” Roth said. “We’ll just go back for a few weeks and have fun.”