When word emerged last year that Nicholas Cage will take a break from making a nonstop string of movies to play John Madden in yet another movie, it was a curiosity.

I don’t know if the world is ready for a John Madden biopic, but it’s coming — and with Nicolas Cage. Deadline had exclusive images of Nic Cage playing the world’s most famous football coach, alongside a totally transformed Christian Bale who is playing former Raiders owner Al Davis.