Kyrie Irving's "Uncle Drew" could be headed to big screen with Irving as star

 
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:21 pm    Post subject: Kyrie Irving's "Uncle Drew" could be headed to big screen with Irving as star

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Kyrie Irving’s “Uncle Drew” could be headed to big screen, with Irving as star


Kyrie Irving‘s “Uncle Drew” made an awesome Pepsi commercial.

Would it make an awesome movie?

At least one Hollywood development group is betting that it would, and Irving is attached to the project, reports trade industry publication Variety (hat tip to Hollywood Insider Dan Devine of Ball Don’t Lie).

Sources tell Variety that Temple Hill Entertainment has acquired the feature film rights to Irving’s “Uncle Drew” Pepsi commercials. “Skiptrace” scribe Jay Longino is set to write the script and Irving is attached to reprise the role of Drew.

Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, and John Fischer will produce the film, described as a love letter to basketball. The original Pepsi Max advertisements showed Irving, in full make-up, playing a 70-plus-year-old man, Drew, who would show up to pick-up basketball games and school kids half his age, while also reminiscing about how the game used to be played…

Described as “Blues Brothers” in the pick-up basketball world, Longino’s pitch shows Drew and his old squad on the legendary Rucker Park basketball court in Harlem. Years later Drew is talked into returning to the courts to compete in a tournament and goes on a road trip to round the old squad up to play.

As long as they are talking the original Blues Brothers and not Blues Brothers 2000, we’re good.

As the hits and misses of turning Saturday Night Live skits into movies has shown over the years, turning short skits and bits into successful full-length movies succeeds less than the average Irving drive to the basket. But it has the potential to be great.

It may be a few years before we find out. Or six months after that when we all find out via Netflix.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 5:25 pm    Post subject:

http://nba.nbcsports.com/2017/02/16/kyrie-irving-uncle-drew-movie-pepsi-cleveland-cavaliers-confirmed/

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Confirmed: Kyrie Irving will star in movie as “Uncle Drew”


If rumors of a Kyrie Irving “Uncle Drew” movie didn’t excite you last week, perhaps this will: Pepsi has confirmed to ESPN that the Cleveland Cavaliers star will be taking the role in a major motion picture.

Darren Rovell confirmed the rumor on Thursday, and the deal will include a website and merchandise that will already be available this weekend during the 2017 All-Star Game.

Via ESPN:

The future also includes an Uncle Drew website as well as limited edition merchandise, which will be unveiled at a pop-up shop in New Orleans this weekend, the site of the NBA All-Star Game. Gear will also be sold on UncleDrew.com, where a new spot called All-Star Game, starring Irving as Uncle Drew and J.B. Smoove and Baron Davis as his older friends, will debut.

The date of release for the movie is undetermined, but as Kurt wrote last week the film already has a writer and a potential plot mapped out. No spoilers here, but it’s going to be something about “getting the band back together” to play one last round. Expect to see a lot of current NBA stars in old man makeup that took 6 hours to get ready.

This is the future you guys. We’ve skipped over product placement and moved on to TV commercials turning directly into movies. No wonder the NBA salary cap for next season is expected to be around $102 million.
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