Kevin Garnett will be adding to his acting repertoire after signing on to join Adam Sandler & Lakeith Stanfield In A24’s crime Movie ‘Uncut Gems’.
Collider broke the news that the Big Ticket will play a key role in the upcoming film. After 21 years of an illustrious NBA career, KG has moved on to become a TV personality even hosting his own show on TNT ‘KG’s Area 21’.
Garnett will play a superstar NBA player and Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta) will play the person in Garnett’s entourage that introduces him to Adam Sandler’s character. Sandler will play a jewelry store owner with a gambling addiction who is juggling two relationships and escalating debts. While KG hasn’t had much acting experience, he’s had small time roles in the 1994 basketball movie Blue Chips and played Wilt Chamberlain in the 1996 TV movie Rebound. That film starred the likes of Don Cheadle and Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault.
Good Time filmmakers Josh and Ben Safdie are directing from a script they co-wrote with Ronald Bronstein. Scott Rudin and Eli Bush are producing alongside Sebastian Bear-McClard and Oscar Boyson of Elara Pictures. Martin Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff are serving as executive producers, and Netflix has international rights to the project.
