Variety has reported Dr. Dre (aka Andre Young), rapper, music producer and CEO of Aftermath Records, will be producing the upcoming horror thriller Thaw. The film is being developed under the banner of Dre's Crucial Films company and is based off a story by partner Daniel Schnider. Screenwriter Vik Weet will be writing the film, which is about "an ancient evil that emerges from the rapidly melting ice in the Yukon."
If made, Thaw will be Dre's first film producing credit since the 2001 comedy The Wash, in which he also starred. Otherwise, Dre's filmmaking experiences have been limited to directing music videos (including N.W.A.'s "Bitch Please") and grabbing supporting roles in movies like Training Day and Set It Off.
Dre has a reputation as a music studio perfectionist, a method that often generates epic results but extremely prolonged waiting. Case in point-- his upcoming album The Detox, has been in the making since 2001. That's eleven years, kids. Not quite Chinese Democracy, but damn close.
We'll have to wait and see whether or not this mentality will delay production on Thaw, but keep in mind Dre's company signed a first look-deal with New Line back in 2007. That was one year before New Line was consolidated into Warner Bros, but still-- that's five years without a movie released. Playing devil's advocate, this careful consideration, however overboard it may seem, also means Dre isn't producing stuff like Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror. (We don't love them celluloid hoes, Snoop. No one does.)
Meanwhile, screenwriter Vik Weet is having another horror script about the Dyatlov Pass incident fast tracked by Renny Harlin. That film, still untitled, is about "a mysterious incident in 1959, when nine experienced hikers were found dead." As last updated, shooting was set to start this March. If all this comes to pass, 2012 should be a big year for Vik Weet.
And hey, remember Ben Folds' cover of "Bitches Ain't Shit"? I bet Dre does.
Extra Tidbit: Y'all motherfuckers act like you forgot about Folds.
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