When his Los Angeles Lakers teammates started talking about Brandon Ingram being the star of Sony Pictures’ “Slender Man,” it seemed like an odd role choice for the sophomore star.
While it’s obvious that money was likely calling — as the studio had no choice but to pay Ingram a lot of cash given that he was one of the only people on the planet to fit the body type of the titular character — it still doesn’t make a ton of sense why the NBA star would agree to play such a poorly written villain in what might be the worst basketball movie of all time (For real, there are almost zero basketball scenes in this movie, despite the posters implying the contrary).