Vince Vaughn breaks down his sports history at EA: From ‘Swingers’ to ‘The Breakup’ to ‘Madden NFL 27’

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Vincent. Anthony. Phone. He’s in the game.

the Wedding Crashers The star’s latest gig is a particularly fun and serendipitous role: Vaughn is the film’s “voice and hero.” Madden NFL 27 Advertising campaign. And a guy who “once went from the third team to the prep team” like Jimmy O’Hare Rudy (1993) The perfect quarterback in the commercial.

MaddenEA Sports’ signature video game, this year’s ad was filmed at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois, where Vaughn grew up and coached for the Chicago Bears. (The NFC North plays its home games 40 miles south at Soldier Field in Chicago.)

Vaughn is not only a big Bears fan, he’s a huge Bears fan Madden Fan as well. To juggle the two, Vaughn only needed one day — albeit “a big, long, full day of filming,” he says. Hollywood Reporter.

The result, a four-minute trailer that will be posted in its entirety on YouTube and split into 15- and 30-second increments for more traditional TV and streaming ads, is one of the best video game commercials since “Genesis Does What Nintendon’t” (1990), Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. TV commercial (1999), or the entire movie Processor (1989) starring Fred Savage. For the It’s Your League position, the outfielder is in the perfect position for Vaughn, Caleb Williams, the Bears QB and Madden NFL 27 The athlete cover, is one hell of a spare.

“What I liked about it is — I think we all get into building the team and kind of creating the craziness. ‘You’re the general manager, you’re the owner, you can be the player, you’re the coach,’” Vaughn said. “Leaning into that sentiment — in and of itself was a fun idea, but it’s not far off, I think, from the way we treat players and sports fans.”

Vaughn can speak for the rest of us, because he’s long overdue Madden The nights are longer than ever, whether it be in the past or more recently in his children’s treehouse. Although this marks iPhone’s first official collaboration with EA, he acts (literally) as the best unofficial player outside of Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins.

in Separation (2006), Von Trapp talks to his 12-year-old online rival Madden NFL 06 Before handing his business to the sticks in a couch-surfing competition against his ex-girlfriend’s date (Jennifer Aniston). A decade ago, Vaughn took control of it Swingers (1996) co-stars Sue (Patrick Van Horn). NHLPA Hockey ’93published by Electronic Arts.

“They’ve always been nice to me,” Vaughn said of EA. “I think that’s part of the culture for us as young people. That’s what we did. We would get together and play these games, so [EA has] He was always great about letting us use him as part of the story we were telling.

Iconography Swingers The scene in particular, the scene where Vaughn’s character causes Wayne Gretzky’s digital head to bleed, was (electronic) art imitating life.

“We’d get together at night after going out and ask for the Pink Dot, and then we’d play in teams of two versus two. But when someone scored, you could control the instant replay, and we’d do that, where we’d come back for the goal, you know, 20 times in a row. People would lose their minds, but all that stuff — a lot of that stuff came from the way we would joke around and play with each other.”

Although the scoring wasn’t so much Vaughn’s as it was Roenicke’s, Gretzky’s cheap shot was all Vince’s. Given the film’s famously low budget, it was Vaughn’s own personal trial and error that led to the bloodletting and put “The Great One” in the hospital.

“In making Gretzky’s head bleed, which was in the script, we were about to abandon it until I put it in a two-player mode, with Gretzky sitting there, and I kept it going,” Vaughn said. “Fortunately, I hit it. And then, if you remember, they did an instant replay of the game, and you could back it up, so we were able to back it up and film it. But we were playing 100 percent.”

Madden NFL 27 It is scheduled to be released on August 13; Players who purchase special editions (such as the “Deluxe” or “MVP” packs) or subscribe to EA Play Pro can play one week in advance.

The trailer for “It’s Your League” was revealed Thursday night during the EA Sports show Madden NFL 27 and College Football 27 Live stream “Opening Drive Official Reveal Event” on YouTube; Watch it below.

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