LaKeith Stanfield replaces Jonathan Majors as Dennis Rodman in film about crazy Vegas trip during NBA Finals Wesley StenzelDecember 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM 0 Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty; Joe Pinchin/NBAE via Getty; Monica Schipper/Getty LaKeith Stanfield; Dennis Rodman; Jonathan MajorsKey points LaKeith Stanfield will play Dennis Rodman in the upcoming movie 48 Hours in Vegas. Jonathan Majors was previously set to portray the Chicago Bulls forward. Rick Famuyiwa (Dope, The Mandalorian) will direct the film, about the player's infamous trip to Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals.
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Wesley StenzelDecember 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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LaKeith Stanfield; Dennis Rodman; Jonathan MajorsKey points -
LaKeith Stanfield will play Dennis Rodman in the upcoming movie 48 Hours in Vegas.
Jonathan Majors was previously set to portray the Chicago Bulls forward.
Rick Famuyiwa (Dope, The Mandalorian) will direct the film, about the player's infamous trip to Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals.
The Dennis Rodman biopic has found a new Worm.
LaKeith Stanfield has officially boarded 48 Hours in Vegas, a film chronicling the Chicago Bull's infamous trip to Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals.
"I'm genuinely excited to help create an exhilarating, joyful work that both honors and thoughtfully examines the legacy of Rodman and fellow trailblazers," the Atlanta star said in a statement. "Those who moved to the beat of their own drum, undeterred by the obstacles placed before them, then and now."
LaKeith Stanfield in December 2025
The movie was originally set to star Stanfield's The Harder They Fall castmate Jonathan Majors, who was dropped from the project less than a month after he was found guilty of one count of assault and one count of harassment in a 2023 domestic violence trial.
Also joining the project: director Rick Famuyiwa, the filmmaker behind the 1999 coming-of-age movie The Wood and the 2002 rom-com Brown Sugar. Famuyiwa also penned the 2007 biopic Talk to Me, starring Don Cheadle, and his most recent feature-length directorial credit came with 2015's Dope, which starred Stanfield in a minor supporting role.
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Dennis Rodman at the 1998 NBA Finals
Famuyiwa, who will also write a new draft of 48 Hours in Vegas, was one of many directors set to helm 2023's The Flash before departing the project, though he received a credit for additional literary material. All of his directorial efforts for the past decade have been for the small screen, including the pilot for The Chi and several episodes of the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. He also wrote and directed We Will Be Monsters, a four-episode miniseries about Universal Monsters like the Bride of Frankenstein and the Mummy, as a collaboration with Fortnite.
The film will be produced by Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Aditya Sood, the team behind Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and the forthcoming Project Hail Mary.
Stanfield starred alongside Donald Glover and Brian Tyree Henry in the FX series Atlanta for four seasons. He made his film debut in 2013's Short Term 12, which also starred Brie Larson, Rami Malek, and Kaitlyn Dever. Since then, he has played supporting roles in buzzy movies like Get Out, Knives Out, and Uncut Gems; acted in biopics like Selma, Straight Outta Compton, and Come Sunday; and appeared in franchise fare like Haunted Mansion and The Girl in the Spider's Web. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his turn in 2021's Judas and the Black Messiah, but the award went to his costar Daniel Kaluuya.
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This year, Stanfield played supporting roles in Lynne Ramsey's Die My Love (opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson), Derek Cianfrance's Roofman (opposite Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst), and Shane Black's Play Dirty (opposite Mark Wahlberg and Keegan-Michael Key).
Stanfield can next be seen in I Love Boosters, which reunites him with Sorry to Bother You filmmaker Boots Riley. He's also set to star alongside Brandon Sklenar in F.A.S.T., an action thriller written by Taylor Sheridan and directed by his Yellowstone collaborator Ben Richardson.
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