If you’re a football fan, you know of The Madden Curse. If you’re a geek who gets nervous at the mere thought of sports (don’t worry, you’re among friends), you might still know about it, since it’s dark source is a video game cover.
If you don’t know about it at all, well, here’s the rundown. Since 1999, NFL players who have the luck to appear on EA’s Madden game cover have gone on to doom. They’ve all suffered lousy performances or terrible injuries, some of which wiped them out for an entire season. New Orleans Saints’ QB Drew Brees is the current poster boy and has managed to escape the curse … for now.
But now fate has been tempted. According to The Wrap, EA Sports is actually developing a movie themed around the idea, titled (of course) The Madden Curse. The plot will center on “The story will follow a former Madden video game champion who is forced out of retirement just as he finds himself on the corner of the game’s cover — and subject to the curse.”
So far, this isn’t any further than EA Entertainment, so there’s no need to rail at Hollywood just yet … until, of course, a studio actually does pick it up. And on that inevitable day, may I suggest they change the plot around to actually include the forces of evil? The Madden Curse could be about a gypsy or witch doctor who is angry about John Madden breaking a sacred talisman or a promise to offer up his firstborn, thus leading to a curse placed on the Madden franchise forever. It will fall to the 2012 cover boy to take on the evil, and end the curse forever.
That cover boy? An older player and a fan favorite who is enjoying a career renaissance, until he is granted the EA cover. That player? Nicolas Cage.
Now there’s a Madden Curse movie worth its celluloid. Ok, probably not, but I think I was more imaginative than EA Entertainment.
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Maybe it could revolve around trying to break the curse by putting someone on the cover that would never be in any danger whatsoever, like a washed-up third-string kicker on a last place team…played by Nicolas Cage. But THEN the team gets good, and Cage, knowing he's in trouble, tries to tank the rest of the season, but he gets more action than ever before while "Final Destination"-like situations start to occur. Fuck it, just make this "Final Destination 6" or whatever the hell the series is up to by that point. Or this could be about a DIFFERENT Madden Curse, the curse of director John Madden, who after doing the Oscar-winning "Shakespeare in Love" seemingly dropped off the radar in a big way.
uuuhhhh. I don't much about the curse other than what was summarized in the article, but since human beings get older and bodies get fragile, isn't the "curse" inevitable? Doesn't sound much like a curse, but more of a fact of life. Especially since anyone making a Madden cover is likely going to be a little more seasoned…
the NFL players and coaches association will not let their name on this. Highly doubt the owners or even John Madden will either.
This is a simple little hoax perpetrated on the movie press to get some free PR for EA.
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