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 was released on VHS and DVD in March 1999.
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Futuresport | |
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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 |
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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 |
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Original network | ABC |
Original release |
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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 Ramzey (Dean Cain) along with his ex-girlfriend Alex Torres (Vanessa Williams) and his old coach Obike Fixx (Wesley Snipes) must prevent an all out war between the North American Alliance and the Pan-Pacific Commonwealth (The Com). At stake is who rules over the Hawaiian Islands—which are being terrorized by Eric Sythe (JR Bourne) and his gang the Hawaiian Liberation Organization (Hilo). It takes a revolutionary sport to stop a revolution.
Films directed by Ernest Dickerson | |
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