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LaKeith Stanfield to Play Dennis Rodman in Lionsgate’s ‘48 Hours in Vegas

Rick Famuyiwa takes the helm, with a rewrite underway on the Lord Miller-produced retelling of Rodman’s 1998 Las Vegas detour.

Overview

  • Lionsgate announced Stanfield’s casting as the lead in the feature dramatizing Dennis Rodman’s two-day trip during the 1998 NBA Finals.
  • Famuyiwa will direct the film and write the next draft of Jordan VanDina’s original screenplay.
  • The project is produced by Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood, with Ari Lubet, Dennis Rodman and Lucy Kitada serving as executive producers and Nikki Baida as co-producer.
  • Jonathan Majors was previously attached to star but was dropped after his 2023 conviction for assault and harassment.
  • Erin Westerman of Lionsgate praised Rodman’s outsized cultural impact as the studio positions the film in active development with no release date announced.