Huge News: Nicholas Cage Is Set To Portray John Madden In Upcoming Biopic About His Life

Source - This time, Nicolas Cage will be playing a national treasure. The famed actor is set to portray the late football coach and TV analyst John Madden in an upcoming biopic, the film’s director David O. Russell said in a statement on Thursday.

The news comes nearly three years after the Super Bowl-winning coach died at 85 years old.

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You smell that? That, my friends, is the smell of a future Academy Award for Best Actor in a lead roll. It's been thirty YEARS since Ole Saint Nic has won an Oscar and it's about damn time he hops back on the horse. I can see it now…Nic…on stage with the Declaration of Independence…thanking everyone he knows including his his African Crow, Hoogan. Here's what the film's director said about the project…

“Nicolas Cage, one of our greatest and most original actors, will portray the best of the American spirit of originality, fun, and determination in which anything is possible as beloved national legend John Madden,” Russell said in the statement.

“Together with the ferocious style, focus, and inspired individualism of Al Davis, owner of the underdog Oakland Raiders, the feature will be about the joy, humanity and genius that was John Madden in a wildly inventive, cool world of the 1970s.”

Couldn't agree more, Davey. Nic is going to knock this role out of the park. Will Ferrell is also rumored to be in the movie although we don't know his particular involvement just yet. Also no word on when this is set to come out, which I'm fine with. Rome wasn't built in a day and great art takes time. Fingers crossed it lives up the expectations. Now here's a highlight reel to get you through the back half of your Friday. Enjoy..

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