In today’s cover story segment of the Daily Variety podcast, Variety’s Angelique Jackson details her time with multi-hyphenate superstar Travis Scott, who just finished a record-breaking music tour with a high-profile role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
Scott has emerged as a star in a new realm of ubiquitous celebrity, expressed through record-breaking music tours, social media, and a wide range of product and retail brand partnerships across giants like McDonald’s and various business ventures in his hometown of Houston and beyond. One of his next big mountains to climb is to get serious about producing his own movies and TV shows. Scott’s Cactus Jack banner recently signed a first-look deal to develop the project with Paramount Pictures.
Scott had a small but important role in Christopher Nolan’s powerful blockbuster The Odyssey, and collaborated on the film’s original end credits song, “When I’m Home.” Jackson, a senior entertainment writer for Variety magazine, expressed his ambitions as a film and television producer and his interest in remaining active in front of the camera as an actor.
“He’s going to be playing himself in a comedy movie with Owen Wilson called ‘Rolling Loud,’ which we filmed during the Owen Wilson tour in 2024. He enjoys acting. He thinks it’s fun, but he’s more interested in creating because he’s a very creative visionary,” Jackson explains. “That’s why this deal with Paramount happened. Actors serve someone else’s vision, whereas he’s more of a big-picture visioner. So he’s more interested in producing and directing. He’s also writing scripts. He potentially wants to make a remake of (1979 drama) ‘The Warriors,’ because that’s going to be the Paramount title.”
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