Elton Brand's starring role is still for the Clippers, but he's branching out as co-producer of a new movie. The Lakers have always been the more Hollywood basketball team in town, the one that draws the celebrities to those pricey courtside seats to see and be seen. But Los Angeles Clippers star Elton Brand is turning into a Hollywood player himself, as co-producer of the new movie "Rescue Dawn.
" Inspired by a true story, the film stars Christian Bale as Navy pilot Dieter Dengler, who was shot down over Laos at the start of the Vietnam War and escaped a POW camp. Werner Herzog directed the $10 million movie based on his own documentary, "Little Dieter Needs to Fly." "Rescue Dawn" comes from Gibraltar Films, which the 28-year-old Brand co-founded; he spent a month on location in Thailand during the hot, physically demanding shoot.
The 6-foot-8 power forward sat down to talk about movies, basketball, and movies about basketball. Why use your offseason time making movies? I write -- I write a lot of stuff -- and I actually wrote a screenplay.
Wow, what's it about? Well, I wrote a few -- I don't want to give it away. There are some talented people that could take it up real fast.
Ah, intellectual property and all that. Elton Brand's starring role is still for the Clippers, but he's branching out as co-producer of a new movie.
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