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The highly anticipated sports biopic 'Madden,' starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale, is underway, bringing the legendary life of NFL icon John Madden to the big screen. Amazon MGM Studios revealed a first look on Tuesday, where Cage steps into the role of John Madden, who served as head coach of the Oakland Raiders and had a long successful stint as a commentator and later turned pop culture icon through the Madden NFL video game series.

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00:00The highly anticipated sports biopic Madden starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale is

00:04underway, bringing the legendary life of NFL icon John Madden to the big screen.

00:10Amazon MGM Studios revealed a first look on Tuesday where Cage steps into the role of

00:14John Madden, who served as head coach of the Oakland Raiders and had a long successful

00:19stint as a commentator, later turned pop culture icon through the Madden NFL video game series.

00:24Bale will portray Al Davis, the iconic owner of the Oakland Raiders and Madden's close

00:29associate. The film will follow Madden's journey from humble beginnings to coaching the Raiders

00:33to the Super Bowl in 1976, and later finding further success on television, video games,

00:38and becoming a reliable pitchman for a wealth of advertisers. The Hollywood Reporter previously

00:43reported that the film will serve as more of an origin story of Madden NFL, one of the biggest

00:48video game franchises of all time. The film will also be directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker David

00:54O. Russell, known for his works in Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. Other cast

00:59members will include John Mulaney, Katherine Hahn, and Sienna Miller. For more updates on this

01:04story, be sure to head over to thehollywoodreporter.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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