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.