{"id":96909,"date":"2025-08-26T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96909\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:27:08","slug":"kobe-bryant-movie-depicting-his-journey-to-the-nba-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96909\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant movie depicting his journey to the NBA in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; A movie about legendary basketball player Kobe Bryant is in the works five years after his death in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Currently titled \u201cWith the 8th Pick,\u201d the movie will focus on Bryant\u2019s journey to the NBA that began with the 1996 draft, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/kobe-bryant-movie-warner-bros-alex-sohn-gavin-johannsen-1236351809\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/kobe-bryant-movie-warner-bros-alex-sohn-gavin-johannsen-1236351809\/\">according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At the time, the New Jersey Nets held the eighth pick in the draft and considered taking Bryant, but he was still in high school. Instead, Bryant\u2019s stock dropped a bit, and the Charlotte Hornets drafted him with the 13th pick then traded him to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bryant won five titles with the Lakers and is considered one of the greatest players in NBA history. He died at 41 in a 2020 helicopter crash, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Warner Bros. will ultimately distribute the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; A movie about legendary basketball player Kobe Bryant is in the works five years after his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,13800,71182,7232,590,12301,85,6141],"class_list":["post-96909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-kobe-bryant-movie","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-sports","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}