Lionsgate picked up a hot new spec script called 48 Hours in Vegas, based on the epic true story of NBA superstar Dennis Rodman’s whirlwind Sin City trip.
Rodman was one of the integral parts of the Chicago Bulls team during the 1998 NBA Finals, where they battled the Utah Jazz, but he made headlines for taking off to Las Vegas for two days in the middle of their run.
The script was Jordan VanDina, with Phil Lord and Chris Miller producing with Aditya Sood, according to Deadline.
Dennis: Lionsgate picked up a hot new spec script called 48 Hours in Vegas, based on the epic true story of NBA superstar Dennis Rodman’s whirlwind Sin City trip
Producers: The script was Jordan VanDina, with Phil Lord and Chris Miller (above) producing with Aditya Sood, according to Deadline .
The movie will follow Rodman and his ‘skittish assistant GM’ who went on a ‘madcap adventure’ in Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals.
The story will showcase a ‘budding friendship’ that neither thought was possible, ‘but would end up solving all their problems.’
Rodman himself will serve as an executive producer alongside Ari Lubet and Will Allegra.
Adventure: The movie will follow Rodman and his ‘skittish assistant GM’ who went on a ‘madcap adventure’ in Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals
‘There’s only one Dennis Rodman. 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,’ said Nathan Kahane, president of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group.
‘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,’ he added.
‘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!’ Kahane concluded.
One Dennis: ‘There’s only one Dennis Rodman. 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,’ said Nathan Kahane, president of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group.
While the Vegas trip made headlines at the time, but the trip was thrust back into the spotlight with the May release of the documentary The Last Dance, which chronicled Michael Jordan’s final season with the Chicago Bulls.
VanDima wrote the script during the pandemic, after watching The Last Dance, teasing on Twitter that he wrote the script, ‘in an insane fever dream inspired daze.’
‘Dennis refused to follow the herd. That is what made him a target and it’s also what made him a star,’ said producers Lord and Miller.
Dennis and Michael: While the Vegas trip made headlines at the time, but the trip was thrust back into the spotlight with the May release of the documentary The Last Dance, which chronicled Michael Jordan’s final season with the Chicago Bulls
‘His weekend in Las Vegas is full of fun and high jinks 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,’ they added.
Lord and Miller are coming off the hit Netflix animated film The Mitchells vs. The Machine and are producing Cocaine Bear, with Elizabeth Banks directing, which is currently in production.
VanDina previously wrote for Animaniacs and SuperMansion, along with the 2020 Hulu movie The Binge.
Public figure: ‘His weekend in Las Vegas is full of fun and high jinks 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,’ they added
Producers: Lord and Miller are coming off the hit Netflix animated film The Mitchells vs. The Machine and are producing Cocaine Bear, with Elizabeth Banks directing, which is currently in production
