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LOS ANGELES: Grammy-nominated rapper Jack Harlow is making his function movie debut in ‘White Males Can not Bounce’, a remake of the 1992 sports activities comedy.
Charles Kidd II, recognized professionally as Calmatic, is directing the reboot from a script via ‘Black-ish’ writer Kenya Barris and Doug Corridor. Within the new tackle ‘White Males Can not Bounce’, Harlow is enjoying the function that Woody Harrelson portrayed within the authentic movie, experiences selection.com.
That film, written and directed via Ron Shelton, starred Wesley Snipes and Harrelson as side road basketball hustlers who start at odds with each and every different after which group up for a larger sport. The filmmakers are recently within the technique of discovering the actor to fill the function originated via Snipes.
They’re additionally auditioning folks to painting Harlow’s personality’s longtime female friend, an aspiring ‘Jeopardya’ contestant performed via Rosie Perez within the 1992 movie.
Barris is generating the movie via his corporate Khalabo Ink Society. Brooklyn Nets basketball megastar Blake Griffin, Ryan Kalil and Noah Weinstein will function govt manufacturers via their label Mortal Media. Corridor and E. Brian Dobbins will even govt produce.
Harlow lately confirmed off his basketball chops on this 12 months’s NBA All-Big name Weekend’s Famous person Recreation, but it surely was once his audition that sealed the deal and received over the filmmaking group in the back of the film. Previous this 12 months, he dropped the only “Nail Tech”, his first new solo free up since his major-label debut album “That is What They All Say”.
In between filming “White Males Can not Bounce”, Harlow is headlining the three-day Forecastle Pageant in his house state of Kentucky.