R&B star Chris Brown will be returning to the basketball court where he fractured his foot last month, to play a young sporting phenomenon in a new movie.

The Run It! singer fought through the pain of his injury to perform at the Grammy Awards and now he's set to test his injured foot in a film.

Brown, 17, will play a high school basketball star who takes on his father's professional team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) play-offs in new movie Phenom.