{"id":618557,"date":"2026-06-03T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:20:11","slug":"mr-irrelevant-sets-christmas-day-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618557\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mr. Irrelevant&#8221; Sets Christmas Day Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mr-irrelevant-sets-christmas-day-release.jpg\" data-caption=\"Paramount Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mr-irrelevant-sets-christmas-day-release.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"mr-irrelevant-sets-christmas-day-release\"\/><\/a>Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Paramount and Skydance have announced that the David Corenswet-led \u201cMr. Irrelevant\u201d is set to get a Christmas Day wide release following stunning results at test screenings earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperman\u201d star Corenswet plays John Tuggle, the running back who was given the \u2018Mr. Irrelevant\u2019 moniker after being the last pick of the last round of the 1983 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>He became the first player in league history picked last in the draft to make the NFL on the team that drafted him. He died just a few years later from cancer at the age of 25, leaving behind an enduring impact on his team and teammates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/david-corenswet-mr-irrelevant-paramount-sports-movies-1236579143\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a> reports that the $35 million sports movie\u2019s test screenings resulted in a score of 95\/100 among men over 35, and snagged an incredibly rare 100\/100 score among women over 35.  The film landed an overall score of 92\/100.<\/p>\n<p>Isabel May, Michael Shannon and David Krumholtz co-star in the film which will now open amidst a crazy busy period in which \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d and a new \u201cJumanji\u201d film are all set to battle at the box-office.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Levine directs while Emmy-nominated writer and \u201cReacher\u201d showrunner Nick Santora penned the script with both producing alongside Gillian Bohrer.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/netflix-sets-a-war-machine-sequel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix Sets A \u201cWar Machine\u201d Sequel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/stargate-series-reboot-scrapped-at-amazon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cStargate\u201d Series Reboot Scrapped At Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures Paramount and Skydance have announced that the David Corenswet-led \u201cMr. Irrelevant\u201d is set to get a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}