{"id":20112,"date":"2024-02-14T19:57:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T00:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/move-over-football-travis-kelce-is-producing-a-movie\/14\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T19:57:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T00:57:47","slug":"move-over-football-travis-kelce-is-producing-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/move-over-football-travis-kelce-is-producing-a-movie\/14\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over, Football: Travis Kelce Is Producing a Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/travis-kelce\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Kelce<\/a><span> is trying his hand at moviemaking.\u00a0ET can confirm that the 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end is an executive producer on the upcoming film <\/span><em><span>My Dead Friend Zoe<\/span><\/em><span>. The upcoming project is Kelce&#8217;s first foray into the movie world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/travis-kelce-my-dead-friend-zoe-financed-energy-tax-credits-1235908057\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a><span>, who was first to report the news, noted that the\u00a0low-budget dark comedy, which stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman, is the first project to take advantage of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy1830#:~:text=The%20Inflation%20Reduction%20Act%20modifies,proportion%20of%20qualified%20apprentices%20from\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2022&#8217;s Inflation Reduction Act<\/a><span> to finance a film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>My Dead Friend Zoe<\/span><\/em><span>, which is set to make its premiere at\u00a0SXSW on March 9, was written and directed by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes. The film follows Merit, a female Afghanistan veteran who, while engaged in a mysterious relationship with a wise-cracking (and dead) best friend from the Army, reluctantly reunites with her estranged Vietnam vet grandfather at the family&#8217;s ancestral lake house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kelce and his producing partners,\u00a0Mike Field and\u00a0Ray Maiello, are also using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/joe-biden\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">President Joe Biden<\/a><span>&#8216;s renewable energy tax credits to finance\u00a0the Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary <\/span><em><span>King Pleasure<\/span><\/em><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a January press conference, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/travis-kelce-teases-post-nfl-career-responds-to-retirement-question-217812\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kelce revealed<\/a><span> that, while he has &#8220;no desire to stop [playing football] anytime soon,&#8221; he is thinking about the day when he says goodbye to the sport for good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;That&#8217;s the point of the offseason,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Being able to get out there and really find what you love to do and I&#8217;ve been fortunate to do a few things outside of the sports world that I&#8217;ve been enjoying doing, like getting on camera.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kelce did just that when he hosted\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/saturday-night-live\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>last year, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/snl-host-travis-kelce-jokes-that-beating-his-brother-in-the-super-bowl-was-pretty-awkward-200270\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">an experience<\/a><span> that he said &#8220;kind of opened up a new happiness and maybe a new career path for me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;But it&#8217;s funny for me to even say that at this point in my career,&#8221; he noted, &#8220;because it&#8217;s so much further down the road than it is right now.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, during the latest episode of Kelce&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><i><span>New Heights\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>podcast, which was released following <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/the-kansas-city-chiefs-win-super-bowl-lviii-in-overtime-219451\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">his team&#8217;s Super Bowl win<\/a><span> over the San Francisco 49ers,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/travis-kelce-reveals-the-one-thing-that-would-make-him-retire-from-football-this-year-219829\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the athlete revealed<\/a><span> that there is one thing that could get him to call it quits in the NFL sooner than expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I love Coach [Andy] Reid. Coach Reid knows how much I love to play for him, how much I love to be a product of his coaching career,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not playing for anybody else but Big Red. If he calls it quits this year, I&#8217;m out of there with him, man. I&#8217;ve got a certain relationship with him.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/move-over-football-travis-kelce-is-producing-a-movie-219880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Kelce is trying his hand at moviemaking.&nbsp;ET can confirm that the 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end is an executive producer<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/move-over-football-travis-kelce-is-producing-a-movie\/14\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}