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12-04-2003, 05:28 AM
Director Justin Lin Takes to the Street Source: Variety Thursday, December 4, 2003
Director Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow) is in talks to helm and co-write the basketball comedy Street at MGM Pictures.
The film follows an NBA expansion team facing slim pickings in the draft, retiring players and a restrictive salary cap. The team elects to staff its bench by hitting urban blacktop streetball courts, with comedic results.
Lin recently also jumped into TV, teaming up with Aaron Spelling for an hourlong drama set up at the WB network. He - along with his "Tomorrow" writing partners Ernesto Foronda and Fabian Marquez - are writing and will executive produce the Spelling Television project, which has been given a script commitment and is being targeted for next fall.
Should a deal be reached in the next few days, Marquez and Foronda are expected to co-write "Street" with Lin.
I actually did get a chance to check out Better Luck Tomorrow, though I had to travel downtown Chicago to this small arthouse theatre to find it. Pretty decent movie, and it looks like it may have been seen by more than umpteen number of people for old Tori's pop to give him a shot.
Director Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow) is in talks to helm and co-write the basketball comedy Street at MGM Pictures.
The film follows an NBA expansion team facing slim pickings in the draft, retiring players and a restrictive salary cap. The team elects to staff its bench by hitting urban blacktop streetball courts, with comedic results.
Lin recently also jumped into TV, teaming up with Aaron Spelling for an hourlong drama set up at the WB network. He - along with his "Tomorrow" writing partners Ernesto Foronda and Fabian Marquez - are writing and will executive produce the Spelling Television project, which has been given a script commitment and is being targeted for next fall.
Should a deal be reached in the next few days, Marquez and Foronda are expected to co-write "Street" with Lin.
I actually did get a chance to check out Better Luck Tomorrow, though I had to travel downtown Chicago to this small arthouse theatre to find it. Pretty decent movie, and it looks like it may have been seen by more than umpteen number of people for old Tori's pop to give him a shot.