“I can make what’s inside your head live forever!” Amazon MGM Studios unveiled their full official trailer for Madden movie, a sports comedy about John Madden and the creation of the iconic video game. 🏈 It’s ready to watch streaming at Thanksgiving 2026 in a few months. From director David O. Russell following his last movie Amsterdam (ugh), comes this true story of the one-and-only football maven John Madden. Madden follows the football legend from Super Bowl glory with the Oakland Raiders to revolutionizing the game with the video game Madden NFL. The very first version of the football video game debuted in 1988 (as “John Madden Football”) for MS-DOS & Apple II, evolving during the 1990s. Starring Nicolas Cage as John Madden, with Christian Bale as Al Davis, Kathryn Hahn as Virginia Madden, John Mulaney as EA founder Trip Hawkins, Sienna Miller, Shane Gillis, and Joel Murray as Pat Summerall. This is such a wild cast! The first look teaser arrived a full year ago and now we have more footage. This trailer definitely confirms this is a streaming movie, but it still looks amusing enough to watch it with your family and enjoy.
Here’s the full official trailer (+ poster) for David O. Russell’s movie Madden, direct from PV’s YouTube:
“There is only one John Madden.” 🏈 Inspired by a true story. After being forced into retirement by the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, fiery former NFL head coach John Madden (Cage) then teams up with a mild-mannered Harvard programmer to rewrite his fading legacy by building the world’s first football video game. Madden is a biopic movie directed by problematic American filmmaker David O. Russell, director of the movies Spanking the Monkey, Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Joy, and Amsterdam previously. The screenplay is written by Cambron Clark and David O. Russell. It’s produced by Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, David O. Russell, Jonathan Shukat, Steve Tisch. Made by MGM Escape Artists, SMAC Entertainment. This isn’t premiering at any festivals or elsewhere, as far as we know. Amazon MGM debuts Russell’s Madden movie streaming on Prime Video just in time for Thanksgiving 2026 starting on November 18th, 2026 this fall. Any good?
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