Dennis Rodman's Escapades in Sin City During the 1998 NBA Finals Will Be a Movie Titled 48 HOURS IN VEGAS
Lionsgate has won the rights in an aggressive bidding war to the film 48 Hours in Vegas, which will follow the escapades of bad boy NBA star Dennis Rodman in Sin City during the 1998 NBA Championships. The story goes that 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.”
The film will be produced by Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Aditya Sood for Lord Miller. Ari Lubet, Will Allegra, and Rodman will executive produce. The screenplay will be written by Jordan VanDina.
Nathan Kahane, president of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group, said of the project:
“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. 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!”
Rodman is such a weird and intriguing dude. This was definitely during the height of his wild years, which kept him in the headlines quite a bit. It will be interesting to get an inside look at what some of that entailed. Maybe.
Source: Deadline