Nicolas Cage has signed on because the lead in ‘Madden’.
The 60-year-old actor will star as John Madden – the famed NFL coach and sports activities commentator who based the favored online game collection ‘Madden NFL’ – within the upcoming biopic, which is because of be directed and written by ‘American Hustle’ filmmaker David O. Russell.
The film, which is being produced by Amazon MGM Studios, will comply with Madden within the ’70s after he turned the top coach of the Oakland Raiders and drove the group to victory on the 1977 Tremendous Bowl.
In a press release, the director stated: “Nicolas Cage, certainly one of our biggest and most unique actors, will painting one of the best of the American spirit of originality, enjoyable, and dedication during which something is feasible as beloved nationwide legend John Madden.
“Along with the ferocious model, focus, and impressed individualism of Al Davis, proprietor of the underdog Oakland Raiders, the characteristic might be concerning the pleasure, humanity and genius that was John Madden in a wildly ingenious, cool world of the 1970’s.”
After his time with the Raiders, Madden – who handed away in 2021 on the age of 85 – went on to have a profitable three-decade-long profession as a color commentator, which cemented his place in American popular culture.
From 1988, the sports activities legend labored with Digital Arts to create an American soccer online game collection what would finally change into ‘Madden NFL’, a franchise for which he turned synonymous with.
Cage’s starring position in ‘Madden’ will probably be certainly one of his final, because the ‘Longlegs’ actor introduced final yr he could be winding down his Hollywood profession.
He beforehand informed Self-importance Honest journal: “It’s beginning to solidify – I’m beginning to cement my plan. I’ll have three or 4 extra films left in me.
“I do really feel I’ve stated what I’ve needed to say with cinema. I feel I took movie efficiency so far as I might.”
