EXCLUSIVE: Shane Gillis has joined the forged of the Amazon MGM Studios movie Madden. He’ll play an authentic character, one near the Madden clan.
David O. Russell is directing the movie, which stars Nicolas Cage as John Madden, Christian Bale as Al Davis, John Mulaney as Journey Hawkins, Kathryn Hahn as Virginia Madden and Sienna Miller as Carol Davis. Manufacturing is at present underway.
Russell is directing a script he wrote, following an earlier model by Cambron Clark. Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch are producing alongside Jonathan Shukat, Russell, Matthew Budman and Colin Wilson. Escape Artists’ David Bloomfield will government produce alongside SMAC Leisure’s Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini. The movie is produced in affiliation with Skydance Sports activities.
The movie follows Madden’s exceptional journey — from his Tremendous Bowl-winning partnership with Al Davis and the Raiders, to creating the Madden NFL online game juggernaut, and changing into one of the crucial iconic voices in soccer historical past.
A high touring comedian, Gillis is at present within the midst of a 39-city worldwide tour. The present leg has already set the all-time ticket file at six arenas together with Toronto’s Scotiabank Area, and achieved sellouts at 11 extra, marking every of the venue’s all-time largest comedy reveals. In TV, Gillis beforehand launched his self-funded debut Shane Gillis: Dwell in Austin, a breakthrough with greater than 40 million views, and adopted that with a Netflix particular Lovely Canines, produced by All Issues Comedy and Gillis’ personal manufacturing firm Dad Sick Productions, which he runs with longtime comedy accomplice John McKeever. Alongside McKeever, Gillis will launch Season 2 of his scripted sequence Tires in June 2025.;
Gillis can be co-creator and star of the online sequence Gilly & Keeves. The sketch sequence, which premiered in 2020, spawned a feature-length particular in 2022. Moreover, Gillis co-hosts the comedy podcast Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast with comic Matt McCusker and continues to develop his presence in main business campaigns.
Gillis is represented by CAA, Vary Media, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
