A sports comedy about pickleball seemed bound to happen, and now there’s a trailer for one.
Below is a first look at Pickleheads, a comedy that premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October.
The mockumentary follows “a disgraced ping pong star who is dragged back into the limelight by a documentary crew, hoping to capture his redemption tale in a plucky new sport — pickleball” — or, as it’s described in the movie, “America’s fastest growing nightmare.” On his road to redemption, the former ping pong star “collides with nudist competitors, the local court kingpin Hawk Kai, while accidentally paddling his way into a turf war with displaced neighborhood protestors and tennis players who are sick of all that pickleball noise.”
The indie effort has some big league competition, however. Ben Stiller has produced a pickleball sports comedy for Apple TV titled The Dink starring Jake Johnson, Stiller and Chloe Fineman among many others that’s coming this summer.
Pickleheads was shot in Austin, which was previously named America’s pickleball capital, having more courts per capita than any other city. The film is directed by Rooster Teeth veteran Josh Flanagan and written by Jared Bonner and stars Pej Vahdat, Kristine Froseth, Jared Bonner, Harvey Guillén, John O’Hurley, Adrianne Palicki, Eric Nelsen, Ryan Cooper and Lindsey Morgan.
Pickleheads will have its Los Angeles premiere on March 1 and is currently seeking distribution.
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