, was a smash hit so now somebody wants to make him a legit actor. Deadline is reporting that Bieber will team-up with Mark Wahlberg(????????) on a basketball drama set in the world of street basketball. No. Wahlberg will produce along with Stephen Levinson, who got the idea by watching Bieber's MVP performance in a celebrity basketball game held during the NBA All-Star Weekend. See! I told you nothing good came out of those things! Now look what we got. The script will be written by Ian Edelman(How to Make It In America
), and I'm accepting all offers from folks who want to break his fingers at the knuckles. Maybe Wahlberg sees a little bit of himself in Bieber? Wahlberg was a joke when he first started, a dude who posed in underwear ads and made crappy pseudo hip-hop songs. While his acting career started in 1993 TV movie The Substitute and blossomed with The Basketball Diaries
, his big break would come a few years later opposite Reese Witherspoon in the stalker thriller, Fear
, and of course let's not forget Boogie Nights 
in 1999. He's been an acting staple ever since. But does Bieber have that kind of range in him? He definitely doesn't have the chiseled, gritty look that Wahlberg does. I guess for this type of film it doesn't matter, although reports are that the tone will be somewhere between The Color of Money 
and The Karate Kid
. What?? No start date has been set for the film, which will no doubt have to work around both stars' busy schedules. Wahlberg seems to have a new project crop up every other day, while Bieber's got a huge backlog of Sesame Street episodes to watch on his DVR. I mean he's got concerts and stuff.
