14 DAY TRIAL // As expected, the unofficial N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton,” directed by F. Gary Gray and produced by the group’s founder Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, turned out to be a huge box office hit. So no wonder there’s a lot of interest in coming out with a follow-up.
With an estimated budget of $29 million (€25.4 million), it’s slowly nearing the $100 million (€87.8 million) threshold at the box office, even though it’s still running in limited release in the US.
The movie has been surrounded by some controversy as well, particularly for the way it whitewashed the group’s misogynistic lyrics and Dre’s brutal assaults on 3 women, but overall, it’s been a commercial and critical hit.
And since nothing good happens in Hollywood without it getting a sequel, plans are already in motion to deliver a follow-up, a sequel of sorts. It would focus “the rise of Snoop Dogg, Tupac and other West Coast rap legends,” TMZ reports, after speaking with Dogg Pound fixture Daz.
The sequel has the working title “Dogg Pound 4 Life” and would pick up from where “Compton” left off. The most interesting part is that, while it’s billed a “sequel, sort of,” this movie is independent of “Compton,” to the point where it wouldn’t even star the same actors.
Curtis Young, Dre’s son, is attached to play his dad, but that’s the only casting detail made available so far.
Daz says neither Ice Cube nor Dre will produce, though Cube was the one who came up with the idea for the film. He promises that it “won't whitewash gang violence and its impact on the rap industry.”