Nicolas Cage To Play John Madden In Movie, Confusing Football Fans Everywhere

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On Thursday, it was revealed that Nicolas Cage has signed on to portray Hall of Fame football coach and broadcaster John Madden in the upcoming movie Madden.

The 60-year-old Cage, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1995 for his role in the film Leaving Las Vegas, will play the legendary football icon in the film, but the film won’t be a biopic.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Madden will be a video game movie.

As in, the Amazon MGM Studios film, set to be directed by David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle), will delve into the origin story of the Madden NFL video game franchise which began way back in 1988.

“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,” said Russell in a 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.”

The news that Nicolas Cage will be playing John Madden, one of the most iconic people in the history of football, was met with many stunned reactions from fans.

“Not as weird as Nicolas Cage playing Superman, but not exactly making sense, either,” someone else observed.

“How does that make any sense at all?” someone else complained.

“Should be Al Davis not John Madden smh,” another football fan pointed out.