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Travis Kelce to Make Movie Debut With Comedy Loose Cannons

Travis Kelce is heading to the massive display.

The Kansas Chiefs soccer star, and boyfriend of Taylor Swift, has landed his first film venture as an actor.

Kelce is connected to star in Free Cannons, an motion comedy that’s within the technique of being arrange at Lionsgate. Chad Stahelski, the John Wick filmmaker who has a first-look cope with Lionsgate, is producing with Jason Spitz, his associate at 87Eleven Leisure, in addition to Alex Younger. Tim Dowling, whose credit embrace Adam Sandler comedy Simply Go With It, wrote the script.

The premise facilities on how each police precinct, at the least on this film’s world, has a loopy, uncontrolled, rule-breaking officer on employees. However reasonably than pair them with a straight arrow and by the e book associate, the premise right here is that unhinged individual is paired with somebody simply as out of line as they’re.

In Cannons, two free cannons are pressured to associate up after their precincts merge as a consequence of finances cuts and nobody needs to work with them. The duo find yourself taking up the instances nobody else can.

The script is described as having tones of Deadly Weapon, Unhealthy Boys and Rush Hour, all landmarks within the buddy motion comedy genres.

Cannons is the newest main step in Kelce’s climb of the Hollywood ladder. The sports activities star has lengthy needed to develop his portfolio into leisure, showing in an episode of Showtime comedy Moonbase 8 in 2020 and internet hosting Saturday Night time Stay in March 2023. The drive into Hollywood turn into extra centered when the tight finish signed with CAA in spring 2023.

Since then, he’s signed on to host a reboot of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader titled Are You Smarter Than a Superstar for Amazon, whereas his first main appearing position is the upcoming Ryan Murphy FX horror present Grotesquerie, which began manufacturing in Might.

Stahelski is deeply ensconced in Lionsgate’s function tasks, appearing as overseer of the Wick franchise for the corporate. He’s additionally engaged on a remake of Highlander which is a franchise hopeful and is to shoot subsequent 12 months after years of improvement.

Dowling made a reputation for himself with a number of large studio comedies, amongst them Common’s Position Fashions, starring Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott, and DreamWorks’ Workplace Christmas Social gathering, starring Jason Bateman. On high of Sandler’s Simply Go With It, he labored on the comic’s big-budget 2015 entry, Pixels. On the motion entrance, he co-wrote the romantic spy film This Means Conflict that starred Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, and Reese Witherspoon.

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‘John Wick’ Sequel Series in the Works

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The John Wick franchise is eyeing one other TV iteration.

Keanu Reeves, who has performed the title character in 4 movies, and director Chad Stahelski are among the many govt producers of a sequel sequence in improvement at Lionsgate Tv. Robert Levine (The Previous Man, Black Sails) is connected as author and showrunner on the venture, titled John Wick: Below the Excessive Desk.

Stahelski, who has helmed all 4 John Wick characteristic movies and has inventive oversight of the franchise by way of a take care of Lionsgate, can be set to direct the pilot episode of the sequence. Lionsgate, which produces the billion-dollar franchise, is procuring Below the Excessive Desk to potential consumers.

Ought to it go ahead, Below the Excessive Desk could be the second TV sequence within the John Wick franchise. Peacock streamed the prequel miniseries The Continental — set on the lodge that could be a secure haven for the assassins on the coronary heart of the story — in 2023.

Below the Excessive Desk will comply with the occasions of John Wick: Chapter 4. The logline for the present reads, “John Wick has left the world of the Excessive Desk in a tenuous place and a set of recent characters will look to make a reputation for themselves whereas a few of the franchise stalwart characters stay dedicated to the old-world order. The sequence will mix new and previous and thrust the Wick universe into a brand new age.”

Together with the potential TV sequence, Lionsgate additionally has two spinoff movies within the Wick-verse: 2025’s Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas, and a characteristic centered on Donnie Yen’s character, Caine.

Stahelski (by way of his 87Eleven Leisure) will govt produce Below the Excessive Desk with Reeves, Levine and Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Street.

Stahelski is repped by WME, legal professional Tara Kole and Mortimer PR.