After winning his second consecutive championship, LeBron James now has the world at his fingertips and plans to venture out into different avenues in the upcoming year.
After winning the NBA championship this year with the Miami Heat, James talked about the improbability of his journey-ascending into world fame despite a challenging upbringing growing up in the inner city.
Now it would seem that James has plans to explore that theme as part of "Survivor's Remorse," a new show that he's currently developing with Starz. Although he won't star in the sitcom, he plans on being one of the executive producers of the show, which will be exploring the lives of two men from the streets who've attained fame-one being an NBA star and the other who is not-and how the deal with families and friends in the wake of their newfound stardom.
"I think the main thing for me is, first of all, making it out of a place where you're not supposed to. You're supposed to be a statistic and end up like the rest of the people in the inner city - (and) being one of the few to make it out and everyone looking at you to be the savior," the Miami Heat superstar said in a phone interview last week.
"When you make it out, everyone expects for - they automatically think that they made it out and it's very tough for a young, African-American 18-year-old kid to now hold the responsibility of a whole city, of a whole community. I can relate to that as well," said James, who was 18 when he came to the NBA and is now a 28-year-old veteran.
Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said the show would be different for the channel, whose original programming includes the recently launched "The White Queen."
"It's a contemporary piece, which we've been trying to find," he said. "But mostly it's an opportunity to bring us into a world where guys as producers and a terrifically talented guy as a writer who I think are going to take the audience on an interesting, fun and I would bet funny ride."
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