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Academy Award winning actors Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale looked unrecognizable in the first photo taken from production of the upcoming film Madden about late Pro Football Hall of Famer and Oakland Raiders coach John Madden was shared by Amazon MGM Studios on Tuesday (May 13).
Cage will play the titular coach and Bale will play late former Raiders coach turned owner Al Davis in the upcoming film with both in-character showing off their Super Bowl rings.
"Your first-look at Nicolas Cage as John Madden and Christian Bale as Al Davis on set of the upcoming film, Madden. Production is currently underway," Amazon MGM Studios wrote in the post shared on its Instagram account Tuesday.
"The film follows Madden’s remarkable journey—from his Super Bowl-winning partnership with Al Davis and the Raiders, to creating Madden NFL, and becoming one of the most iconic voices in football history," the caption continued.
The film will be directed by David O. Russell and also feature John Mulaney as Trip Hawkins, Kathryn Hahn as Virginia Madden and Sienna Miller as Carol Davis.
Madden, who died in December 2021, led the Raiders to a Super Bowl XI victory over the Minnesota Vikings in 1977 and retired in 1978 with a 103-32-7 career coaching record and a 76.3% winning percentage, the highest in NFL history. The Minnesota native went on to a legendary broadcasting career as the first NFL color analyst to contribute to all four major networks: CBS (1979-93), FOX (1994-2001), ABC (2002-05) and NBC (2006-08), before retiring ahead of the 2008 season and was immortalized as the namesake for EA Sports popular NFL video game franchise, initially lending his voice and likeness to the series in 1988.