| 20 December 2010
Has the film industry ran out of ideas? I hear that a lot. I don't know because I rarely see movies (one a year, and for 2010, it was "Scott Pilgrim vs the World").
The Wrap is reporting that EA Sports is planning on creating a movie based off of the so-called "Madden Curse." Every year for more than a decade, a player has been picked to be on the cover of Madden. And for some weird reason, the player either has a bad year performance-wise, bad moment in a critical game, or horrific injury. Most of the time, it's been a horrific injury.
Drew Brees is the latest Madden cover athlete, and while he hasn't had a devastating injury, he has the most interceptions this season.
It sounds like the movie is going to be historical fiction; I'm wondering what year the movie will be set in, because if it's done anywhere in the 2000s, we'll have to speculate whether the movie is based off of that year's Madden cover athlete.
Here's more from The Wrap:
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.
Pat O'Brien, VP of EA Entertainment, is spearheading the project as one of its producers.
O'Brien wasn't immediately available for comment on Monday, but an individual at Electronic Arts confirmed that the company is developing a movie about the so-called curse.
In 2007, EA Sports' director of marketing Chris Erb told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "I don't know that we believe in the curse. The players don't believe in the curse."
