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The NFL is heading to Hollywood with Skydance Media. This is the production company behind movies such as Top Gun: Maverick, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Annihilation, Star Trek Into Darkness, True Grit and many more. They will join one of the biggest leagues in all sport to begin producing content.
The idea behind this deal, according to Front Office Sports, is to produce accessible content like HBO's Hard Knocks (a reality show that features one team's training camp in raw and striking television).
The deal also involves making both fictional and non-fictional content. Hard Knocks is non-fiction, but the NFL is also looking into making movies, potentially like the ones Skydance has produced.
The NFL is also reportedly going to make an investment in Skydance Sports. This is a branch of the company that makes both scripted and unscripted sports-related content, documentaries and events.
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They recently partnered with Kylian Mbappe, so Skydance Sports is slowly becoming a major player in the Hollywood sports scene. Skydance was recently valued at about $4 billion, which is more than some NFL teams at this point. The deal has the potential to be incredibly lucrative for both parties.
When the NFL has crossed over with Hollywood
Several times, football has been the subject of a blockbuster Hollywood movie. Movies like Concussion, Draft Day, The Blind Side, American Underdog, Home Team, We Are Marshall, Remember the Titans and others have featured both real and fictional football stories.
Additionally, many players have acted in movies before. D.K. Metcalf was recently in a Paramount+ film alongside Owen Wilson. Legendary quarterback Dan Marino was in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective with Jim Carrey.
John Madden appeared in The Replacements with Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman. Mike Ditka made a cameo in Will Ferrell's Kicking and Screaming.
Perhaps the best defender of all time, Lawrence Taylor, was featured in Adam Sandler's football comedy The Waterboy.
With the new deal with Skydance Media, more football players and personnel might end up in movies. If they lean into the fictional side of their new deal, the line between acting and football could be blurred a bit.
