Kevin Zegers Says Revisiting Air Bud Films Could Happen

Returning to his roots? Kevin Zegers teased the potential for Air Bud getting the reboot treatment.

“I’ve spoken to Robert Vince, who’s the manufacturer of all the ones motion pictures [and] now lives in a space larger than this building. I feel there’s most certainly one thing there,” Zegers, 35, informed Us Weekly solely on Thursday, October 3. “It would should be the proper scenario.”

Zegers, who starred in the 1997 original, continued by means of confirming that they’ve “surely thought of a way to bring it again to what it to begin with was once, which is truly like a candy story about a kid and his canine.”

Air Bud follows a top schooler, named Josh Framm (Zegers), as he discovers that his stray puppy canine, Bud, is good at enjoying basketball. The film’s luck spawned the sequel Air Bud: Golden Receiver, which Zegers reprised his position of Josh for.

Several direct-to-video installments have been created thereafter, together with Air Bud: Spikes Back and Air Bud: World Pup. It additionally impressed the improvement of 2 by-product sequence, Air Buddies and Santa Paws.

The Nighthawks actor reiterated that “they’ve made, like, a thousand” sequels to the 1997 film he firstly starred in, however he believes that “the primary film is, kind of, the film that people think about.”

“[It] was in fact, like, a great little film. Your sweet family movie,” he endured. “Mostly basketball avid gamers, like skilled basketball gamers, will stop me like in the airport and be like, ‘Yo bro, I don’t in reality do this that much.’”

The Gossip Girl alum mentioned one of the most movie’s well-known lovers come with LeBron James and Snoop Dogg. “To LeBron James, I’m a big deal as a result of he’s like, ‘I actually wore out that VHS tape,’” he recalled to Us. “And Snoop Dogg and, like, those guys, ‘reason … they were given children.”

Zegers has worked constantly since his Air Bud days. He’s had a steady film profession, showing in initiatives like The Jane Austen Book Club, Frozen and opposite Felicity Huffman in Transamerica. Additionally, he’s had ordinary roles on Dirty John and Fear the Walking Dead as well.

For his newest challenge, Nighthawks, Zegers performs Chad, whom he describes as “tough” and “unapologetic about how issues are in his mind.” This function allowed also him to reunite with his Gossip Girl costar, Chace Crawford.

“Chace is so excellent on this film,” Zegers instructed Us. “It’s so different for him.”

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Nighthawks is to be had for digital download on Apple TV and iTunes on Thursday, October 3.

With reporting by means of Christina Garibaldi 

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