CLEVELAND _ Uncle Drew will soon be getting buckets on the big screen. Kyrie Irving confirmed to the Beacon Journal on Saturday that his character, Uncle Drew, will star in a feature length movie.
Irving confirmed Variety's report on his way out of the locker room prior to the Cavaliers' game against the Denver Nuggets and provided no other details. Variety reported that Temple Hill Entertainment has acquired the rights, Jay Longino will write the script and the movie will, of course, star Irving in the role he created as the elderly man he made popular in Pepsi Max commercials.
Temple Hill has produced such hits as "Twilight" and "The Fault in Our Stars." Longino previously wrote Skiptrace and Bachelor Party 2.
Irving hinted during training camp in October about "something big" he was planning with the Uncle Drew character, but declined to provide more details.
"There will be a last chapter that will happen," Irving said in October, "but I don't think it will be on YouTube."
