Peacock has dropped the full Shooting Stars trailer for Universal Pictures’ coming-of-age drama about the story of how NBA superstar LeBron James and his childhood friends became the top high school basketball team in the country.
The video features newcomer Marquis Cook and Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin as they portray young talented boys who are determined to change the game of basketball together. The film will be available for streaming on June 2.
Check out the Shooting Stars trailer below (watch more trailers):
Shooting Stars is based on James and Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger’s novel of the same name. The film will feature the acting debut of five-star high school small forward Marquis “Mookie” Cook as a young LeBron James. Joining Cook are Caleb McLaughlin as Lil Dru, Avery S. Wills, Jr. as Willie McGee, Khalil Everage as Sian Cotton, Wood Harris as Dru Joyce, Dermot Mulroney, and newcomer Sterling “Scoot” Henderson as Romeo Travis.
“Shooting Stars is set in the 1990s, where a young LeBron James and his three best friends — Lil Dru, Willie McGee, and Sian Cotton —declare themselves the ‘Fab Four,’ after the famed Michigan Wolverines’ ‘Fab Five’ of that era. From the moment we meet them, we realize this group of friends, under the guidance of coach Dru Joyce, is connected by more than basketball. So, when the coach at the top basketball school in their district threatens to separate them by putting Lil Dru on junior varsity, the Fab Four decide to switch schools to be able to play varsity together, joining the team at a predominantly white Catholic school instead. The community takes this as an insult, but the boys’ dedication to each other is more important than anything else,” reads the synopsis.
“With their new coach, a disgraced former college coach seeking redemption of his own, the boys, along with former rival and new teammate Romeo Travis, will face battles not only on the court but in real life, in their quest to become national champs, and will rediscover that what matters most about the game is the people playing beside you.”
The film is directed by Emmy nominee Chris Robinson from a screenplay written by Frank E. Flowers, Tony Rettenmaier, and Juel Taylor. It is produced by James, Oscar nominee Rachel Winter, Spencer Beighley, Maverick Carter, Jamal Henderson, and Terence Winter. The film is executive produced by Gretel Twombly.
