Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and Grammy-winning pop star Taylor Swift's boyfriend, is heading to the big screen.
The recent Super Bowl champion has landed his first movie project as an actor.
Kelce is attached to star in "Loose Cannons", an action comedy that is in the process of being set up at Lionsgate.
Chad Stahelski, the John Wick filmmaker who has a first-look deal with Lionsgate, is producing with Jason Spitz, his partner at 87Eleven Entertainment, as well as Alex Young.
Tim Dowling, whose credits include Adam Sandler comedy Just Go With It, wrote the script.
"Loose Cannons" centers on how every police precinct, at least in this movie’s world, has a crazy, out of control, rule-breaking officer on staff. But rather than pair them with a straight arrow and by the book partner, the premise here is that unhinged person is paired with someone just as out of line as they are.
In Cannons, two loose cannons are forced to partner up after their precincts merge due to budget cuts and no one wants to work with them. The duo ends up taking on the cases no one else can.
The script is described as having tones of "Lethal Weapon," "Bad Boys," and "Rush Hour," all landmarks in the buddy action comedy genres.
"Loose Cannons" is the latest major step in Kelce’s climb of the Hollywood ladder.
The sports star has long wanted to expand his portfolio into entertainment, appearing in an episode of Showtime comedy Moonbase 8 in 2020 and hosting Saturday Night Live in March 2023.
The drive into Hollywood become more focused when the tight end 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 Celebrity" for Amazon.
He landed his first major acting role is the upcoming Ryan Murphy FX horror show "Grotesquerie," which started production in May.
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