Actor Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) is in early talks to join the buzzed-about Lionsgate movie that will follow basketball great Dennis Rodman’s 48 hours in Vegas during the 1998 NBA Championship Finals.
While a deal isn’t closed, sources tell Deadline that Majors is very much on board and negotiations are headed in the right direction. Lionsgate won the rights to the spec in a highly competitive auction last August with Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood producing the film. Ari Lubet, Will Allegra, and Rodman will executive produce. The screenplay is by Jordan VanDina, who penned the script during the pandemic. Once it hit the market, Lionsgate was instantly in love with this idea and all the crazy characters involved in the story, pushing hard to land the rights.
It is inspired by the crazy story of how “NBA star Dennis Rodman went on a madcap adventure with his skittish assistant GM in the middle of the 1998 NBA Finals. The film will detail a budding friendship that neither one of them ever thought was possible but will end up solving both of their problems.”
“Everybody had heard the rumors of this crazy story when it first happened in the ’90s, but it was recently given the spotlight again following the success of the Michael Jordan-Chicago Bulls doc The Last Dance, which premiered to massive numbers last May. The incident was given the full treatment in the doc, with everyone from Jordan to coach Phil Jackson to supermodel Carmen Electra talking about what went down as Rodman took the trip all while the Bulls were trying to complete its second three-peat championship run.”
I think Majors would be great in the role of Dennis Rodman! I look forward to watching this crazy story unfold.