Boom! Tough actin’ is guaranteed in Amazon MGM Studios‘ Madden, the John Madden sports biopic starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale, which revealed a first look on Tuesday.
In Madden, Cage plays the NFL legend who served as head coach of the Oakland Raiders as well as had a long and successful stint as a commentator and later a pop culture icon through the Madden NFL video game series. Bale portrays Al Davis, the owner of the Raiders during Madden’s time with the team.
The film tracks Madden’s journey from humble beginnings to coaching the Raiders to the Super Bowl in 1976 and later finding further success on television, video games and becoming a reliable pitch man for a wealth of advertisers. The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that the film will serve as more of an origin story of Madden NFL, one of the biggest video 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 version of the script.
As well as Cage and Bale, the cast includes John Mulaney (playing Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins), Kathryn Hahn (as Virginia Madden) and Sienna Miller (as Carol Davis).
Madden is produced in association with Skydance Sports. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Jonathan Shukat, David O. Russell, Matthew Budman and Colin Wilson serve as producers with David Bloomfield, Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini on board as executive producers.