Growth! Powerful actin’ is assured in Amazon MGM Studios‘ Madden, the John Madden sports activities biopic starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale, which revealed a primary look on Tuesday.
In Madden, Cage performs the NFL legend who served as head coach of the Oakland Raiders in addition to had an extended and profitable stint as a commentator and later a popular culture icon by means of the Madden NFL online game collection. Bale portrays Al Davis, the proprietor of the Raiders throughout Madden’s time with the crew.
The movie tracks Madden’s journey from humble beginnings to teaching the Raiders to the Tremendous Bowl in 1976 and later discovering additional success on tv, video video games and changing into a dependable pitch man for a wealth of advertisers. The Hollywood Reporter beforehand reported that the movie will function extra of an origin story of Madden NFL, one of many largest online game franchises of all time.
Christian Bale as Al Davis and Nicolas Cage as John Madden in Madden.
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Madden is written and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker David O. Russell (The Fighter, American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook). Cambron Clark wrote an earlier model of the script.
In addition to Cage and Bale, the solid consists of John Mulaney (enjoying Digital Arts founder Journey Hawkins), Kathryn Hahn (as Virginia Madden) and Sienna Miller (as Carol Davis).
Madden is produced in affiliation with Skydance Sports activities. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Jonathan Shukat, David O. Russell, Matthew Budman and Colin Wilson function producers with David Bloomfield, Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini on board as government producers.