Luke Hemsworth and Kelly Slater are teaming up to star in “The Greatest Surf Movie In The Universe.” Photos: (L)Wikimedia Commons//(R)The Inertia
Kelly Slater, as you know, has had his fingers in a lot pies for a long time. Many pots on the stove, lots of pans on the fire. Surfer first. Business owner, too. Actor as well. And the Baywatch star/11-time world champion has a new film credit coming out soon. According to Deadline, Slater will star alongside Luke Hemsworth and Mick Fanning in a film called The Greatest Surf Movie In The Universe.
Although details are a little sketchy, the IMDB summary — which, strangely, doesn’t mention Luke Hemsworth — describes the upcoming film as such:
It’s been 10 years since a deadly virus has wiped out a lot of the global population. In the rush to save humanity, Dr. John Fig fast tracks an experimental vaccine which becomes mandatory in every country around the world. The vaccine works, however there is one terrible side effect: the injection instantly erases the ability to surf and any memory of surfing altogether. It’s a strange and abstract time as the world’s best surfers stumble blindly into new lives and careers oblivious to the incredible talents they once possessed. Sensing the total extinction of wave riding, the surf god, Huey, makes a last-ditch effort to save surfing. He scours the globe until, high on a mountain top in Tibet, he finds the one man capable of bringing surfing back from the dead. With his memory reinstated by Huey, it’s now up to the three-time world champion surfer Mick Fanning to recruit a team of the world’s best surfers (including Craig Anderson, Mason Ho, Griffin Colapinto, Jack Freestone, Matt Wilkinson and Kelly Slater) and restore the glory of surfing back into public consciousness. There’s only one way to do it and that’s to make… THE BEST SURF MOVIE IN THE UNIVERSE.
Sounds pretty decent, doesn’t it? If nothing else, it might be one of those movies that’s so bad it’s good. Slater apparently hated his time on Baywatch, saying “I was so embarrassed that I was going to have to do the show and I just really didn’t want to. I wanted to go surfing and win contests and be a professional surfer and that was it. I wasn’t trying to go be an actor. Surfing wasn’t some launch pad to acting.”
Despite that, however, he does have a handful of other film credits, including Jeep owner in One Night at McCool’s, the voice of Kelly in Surf’s Up, and himself in Ballers.
