Futuresport
Futuresport is a 1998 American made-for-television sports film directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring Dean Cain, Vanessa Williams, and Wesley Snipes.[1] It originally aired on ABC in October 1998, and released on VHS and DVD in March 1999.
| Futuresport | |
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 Official DVD cover | |
| Genre | Action Sci-Fi Sport Thriller |
| Written by | Robert Hewitt Wolfe Steve De Jarnatt |
| Directed by | Ernest Dickerson |
| Starring | Dean Cain Vanessa Williams Wesley Snipes |
| Music by | Stewart Copeland |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Deborah Raffin Michael Viner Ron Ziskin |
| Producers | Wesley Snipes David Roessell Ken Raskoff (co-producer) Victor McGauley (co-producer) Eric Cowger (associate producer) |
| Production location | Vancouver |
| Cinematography | Jonathan Freeman |
| Editor | Stephen Lovejoy |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Production companies | Amen Ra Films New Star Media Inc. |
| Distributor | ABC Columbia/TriStar |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
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Plot
The film is set in 2025, and centers on a sport called "Futuresport" (a combination of basketball, baseball and hockey that uses hoverboards and rollerblades) created as a non-lethal way to reduce gang warfare. Tre (Dean Cain) must save the world from Hawaiian Liberation Organization terrorists by winning in the game of futuresport.
Cast
- Dean Cain as Treymayne 'Tre The Pharaoh' Ramzey
- Vanessa Williams as Alejandra 'Alex' Torres
- Wesley Snipes as Obike Fixx
- Mikela Jay as Lorelei
- Bill Smitrovich as Coach Douglas
- Tara Frederick as 'Anarchy'
- Valerie Chow as 'Jet'
- Brian Jensen as Tom 'Mayhem' Mayhew
- Adrian G. Griffiths as Blake Becker
- David Kaye as Ronnie Vance
- Emanuelle Chriqui as Gina Gonzales
- Brad Loree as Roger Willard
- Lloyd Adams as Travis Middlebrooks
- JR Bourne as Eric Sythe
- Francoise Yip as Keahi
- Ken Kirzinger as Jack 'Hatchet Jack' Jamiston
- Hiro Kanagawa as Otomo Akira
- Lori Stewart as Carly 'Kiwi' Madigan
- Patrick Pfrimmer as Sebastian Krajenski
- Matthew Walker as Neville Hodgkins
- Gerard Plunkett as Edgar Computer Voice
References
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