David O. Russell is making a movie about the late John Madden. Madden is not going to be about his NFL coaching career, nor about his years of legendary sports broadcasting. Rather, it will be about the development of the video game series Madden NFL.
If you were to cast an actor to play Madden in a movie, who would you seek out? Sadly, John Candy is not available, because he would be perfect. There are other intriguing possibilities: Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Dennis Quaid, Will Ferrell. In fact, Ferrell was announced to been cast as the star of Madden last year. He could pull it off. Then several months ago, we learned that Hugh Jackman would get the part. That seems a stretch, but if Tom Hanks can play Colonel Tom Parker, then we could see Jackman in the role, except we couldn't really see him under layers of prosthetics. But now they've cast another actor.
Madden will be played by Nicolas Cage. This appears to be the final decision, as filming will begin soon. Why cast Cage in the part? We don't know for sure, but it very well may have come down to the fact that Cage wanted to do it. He has that kind of clout. We don't know when or if Madden is scheduled for release. -via Uproxx
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