Travis Kelce Circling New Action-Comedy ‘Loose Cannons’ - News Reelz
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From Gaius Bolling
The Hollywood transition is pretty much complete! It has been announced that Kansas Chiefs football star Travis Kelce is in talks to star in Loose Cannons, an action-comedy that is in the process of being set up at Lionsgate.
Tim Dowling, whose credits include the Adam Sandler comedy Just Go With It, wrote the script and it will be produced by Chad Stahelski, the John Wick filmmaker who has a first-look deal with Lionsgate. Per the film's synopsis (via THR), the film “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 end up taking on the cases no one else can."
Kelce, who is also the boyfriend of Toylor Swift, has been steadily sticking his toes into Hollywood projects for a bit now. He appeared in an episode of the Showtime comedy Moonbase 8 in 2020 and hosted Saturday Night Live in March 2023. He then followed that up by signing with CAA in spring 2023. Soon after he signed on for a spinoff/reboot of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, titled Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity for Amazon, while his first major acting role is the upcoming Ryan Murphy FX horror show Grotesquerie.
Some might be annoyed by this, but based on his personality on his podcast (“New Heights”) and interviews, he seems charismatic enough to take on certain roles and he's certainly not the first football player to do this… so more power to him!
