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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Lord and Miller are turning Dennis Rodman’s infamous 48 hours in Las Vegas into a movie.
Dennis Rodman’s legendary 48 hours in Las Vegas will be brought to life on film thanks to Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the producers behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Variety revealed that Lord and Miller will produce 48 Hours in Vegas alongside Aditya Sood, the executive producer behind both Deadpool films. Sood will also join Lord and Miller producing the Into the Spider-Verse sequel, so the adaptation of Rodman’s infamous adventure will be the latest work to team the three creatives. The film’s screenplay comes from Jordan VanDina, a writer on the new Animaniacs, the Hulu film Binge, and the series What Would Diplo Do?, which saw James Van Der Beek playing the controversial DJ and music producer.
Lionsgate will distribute and Rodman will serve as an executive producer along with Ari Lubet (American Vandal) and Will Allegra, who has served on an executive producer for many of Lord and Miller’s films to date, from The LEGO Movie to Solo: A Star Wars Story, which the pair were directing and writing at one point.
“There’s only one Dennis Rodman,” Nathan Kahane, president of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group, said. “In 1998, there was nobody on Earth who’d be more fun — or maybe more dangerous — to party with. And yet that’s not even half of who he is. This movie takes you on an unforgettable ride with the myth, the legend and also the man that Dennis is, behind everything you think you know. We could not be more thrilled to be working with Phil, Chris, Aditya, Ari, Will and Jordan, and above all, Dennis, whose amazing career and life will make for an off-the-wall hilarious yet completely human and emotional movie. You think you know anything about ‘The Worm?’ Just you wait!”
The film will chronicle Rodman’s trip to Vegas with his assistant general manager in 1998, which Michael Jordan apparently had to pull the eccentric player back from. Rodman took the trip amidst the Chicago Bulls NBA Finals game against the Utah Jazz. The team was on the cusp of its second three-peat championship in just eight years, but coach Phil Jackson allowed Rodman to take the trip with his nervous assistant GM. The two would bond during the now-iconic trip, which Rodman and Jordan detailed on The Last Dance.
Rather than a documentary approach, however, the film will adapt the events, thus acting as a biopic of sorts for the unconventional and boundary-pushing NBA player. It’s likely that Jordan will also be played in the film given his involvement in the larger story.
“Dennis refused to follow the herd. That is what made him a target and it’s also what made him a star,” Lord and Miller said in a statement. “His weekend in Las Vegas is full of fun and hijinks but it is also full of important questions about the way public figures and workers are treated, especially when their individuality is expressed so vividly.”
Source: Variety
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