With Jesus Shuttlesworth having been given new life this season, Ray Allen hints that a second “He Got Game” could soon be in the works. Per the AP:
Miami Heat guard Ray Allen, who played the Shuttlesworth role in the 1998 movie “He Got Game,” says he and filmmaker Spike Lee have spent time over the last couple months discussing a sequel and are currently throwing ideas back and forth about the project.
“Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first,” Allen said Tuesday night before the Heat played the New Orleans Pelicans. “But it’s something we’ve been talking about for the last couple months. If we get a really good story line and are able to bring everybody back, then it would be something worth doing.”
Lee posted a photo of himself and Allen to a social media account last summer, saying then that they were engaging in sequel talk. It wasn’t clear then how serious those conversations were.
Allen – who still gets called “Jesus” by teammates – said he’s committed to making it happen.
“Hopefully it works out,” said Allen, whose character in the film was a highly recruited high school basketball star. […] “We’ve got to get Denzel (Washington) and we’ve got to get Rosario (Dawson),” Allen said. “Obviously, it’s been 15 or 20 years, so there’s so many new story lines to talk about.”
