""The reason I'm here is because Jordan Peele saw 'Kicks' and loved it," Tipping said during a phone interview. "Around the time that was being released he had won an Academy Award (best original screenplay for "Get Out") and had just started Monkeypaw Productions. He wanted to meet young filmmakers and wanted to meet me. "So the seed was planted." Then came a nearly decade-long gap with Tipping venturing into various projects in the streaming and TV universe."
"Since he had participated in basketball, baseball, soccer and gymnastics while growing up in the East Bay, he instantly responded to the film's crazy sports-themed plot in which up-and-coming football player Cameron Cade (played by Tyriq Withers) goes on the mend and trains at veteran football icon Isaiah White's (Marlon Wayans) freaky Southwest desert sports compound after an attack by a deranged fan. Little does Cam know, he just stepped into a Dantean lair - religious allusions and all."
Justin Tipping credits his first indie feature, 2016's Oakland-set Kicks, with opening the door to his current career milestone directing and co-writing HIM. Jordan Peele saw Kicks, had just won an Academy Award and started Monkeypaw Productions, and sought to meet young filmmakers, which connected him with Tipping. Tipping spent nearly a decade working on streaming and TV projects before HIM (originally titled GOAT) reached Peele. HIM follows an up-and-coming football player who trains at a veteran icon's unsettling desert sports compound, exploring themes of masculinity, fame and religiously tinged horror. HIM opens Sept. 19.
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