KRIS-TV in Corpus Christi reports that Justin Timberlake’s next film role will be a minor one - a minor league one, that is.

The pop star-slash-actor-slash Pepsi punching bag will be portraying a minor league baseball player in the upcoming movie “The Open Road”

Timberlake will play Carlton Garrett, a fictional member of the real Corpus Christi Hooks. (Are their fans known as ‘Hookers’?) The film - a story of a young man trying to reconnect with his famous athlete father while trying to get home to his ailing mother - also stars Jeff Bridges, Mary Steenbergen and Kate Mara.

Filming started on Tuesday in Hammond, LA. Justin tried to meet with actual players of the Hooks team, but their “schedules didn’t align“. In other words, the Hooks didn’t want to be see with him.

“The Open Road” also has another sports connection in Michael Meredith. The film’s writer & director is the son of former Dallas Cowboys QB & “Monday Night Football” boothminder Don Meredith.

Maybe Howard Cosell’s offspring and Frank Gifford’s son Cody can make some cameos.