After this year’s successes, it’s clear Hollywood will be making more video game movies for quite some time. With The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Iron Lung, and now Resident Evil soaring to box office profits, the name recognition that comes with iconic game franchises is starting to look like a cheat code to millions of dollars, and sometimes even the start of a lucrative franchise.
But what about movies that tell the stories behind iconic games? 2023 gave us Jon S. Baird’s Tetris, a film about the puzzle game that took the world by storm, but there aren’t many beyond that. That’s about to change with Madden, a biopic about legendary NFL football coach, commentator, and video game namesake John Madden, and courtesy of Amazon Prime, we now have our first trailer.
