{"id":168288,"date":"2025-08-23T04:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168288\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:36:14","slug":"kobe-bryant-movie-in-works-at-warner-bros-focusing-on-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168288\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant Movie in Works at Warner Bros., Focusing on NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA film project centered around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nba\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nba_1\" data-tag=\"nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA<\/a> superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kobe-bryant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kobe-bryant_1\" data-tag=\"kobe-bryant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>\u2018s journey to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_los-angeles-lakers_1\" data-tag=\"los-angeles-lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> has landed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/warner-bros\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros_1\" data-tag=\"warner-bros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warner Bros.<\/a>, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAlex Sohn and Gavin Johannsen penned the spec screenplay for With the 8th Pick, which tracks the high-stakes process that led to Bryant getting drafted into the NBA in 1996. The project was generating high interest from other studios and streamers before Warners stepped in to preemptively nab it. A director has not yet been attached. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWith the 8th Pick is said to focus on the New Jersey Nets and then-general manager John Nash, who held the eighth pick in the draft and considered taking Bryant out of high school. The future Hall of Famer ended up being taken by the Charlotte Hornets with the 13th pick before he was traded to the Lakers, where he would win five NBA championships and become an icon of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe project is described as having elements of Moneyball (which starred Brad Pitt) and Air, Ben Affleck\u2019s Matt Damon-starring pic that tracked the beginning of Michael Jordan\u2019s now-legendary partnership with Nike. With the 8th Pick? is said to detail the pivotal process in which slightly different decisions could have changed the NBA\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBryant was part of the legendary Lakers teams that included center Shaquille O\u2019Neal and coach Phil Jackson. Bryant died in a helicopter crash in 2020 at age 41, as did 13-year-old daughter Gianna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSohn is also writing Netflix\u2019s planned John Madden project that hails from Religion of Sports. He is represented by Verve and Lit Agency. Johannensen is repped by Verve and Gotham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinsneider.com\/p\/kobe-bryant-movie-with-the-8th-pick-warner-bros-star-thrower-religion-sports-tom-brady\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The InSneider<\/a> was first to report on the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A film project centered around NBA superstar Kobe Bryant\u2018s journey to the Los Angeles Lakers has landed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28459,3141,1260,62,67,132,68,1021],"class_list":{"0":"post-168288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-kobe-bryant","9":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-warner-bros"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115076227647688320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}