There was a lot that the hit documentary highlighting the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls-title winning team “The Last Dance” has received in the 19 months since it first premiered last spring. The Last Dance mainly highlighted all-time great shooting guard Michael Jordan among individual Bulls players, but others definitely got the spotlight too.
Those other key figures that got the spotlight at some point in The Last Dance included Hall-of-Fame forwards Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman, head coach Phil Jackson, and even forward Toni Kukoc. Yet, the spotlight shined pretty heavily on Pippen and Rodman in The Last Dance.
But this is nothing new for Rodman to get a bright spotlight in documentaries. He holds a significant role, or is the key figure in multiple ESPN documentaries alone now. And he is about to get another film made for his life on and off-the-court, according to multiple sources (including a piece from the New York Post this week).
Former Chicago Bulls Hall-of-Fame forward Dennis Rodman getting a film on his midseason trip to Las Vegas
This film is set to be called “48 Hours in Vegas”, and it will spotlight the midseason trip that Rodman took during the 1997-98 campaign to Las Vegas, NV. The trip to Vegas for Rodman in 1998 did take place for much longer than 48 hours, though. He took this trip with Carmen Electra in what is largely suspected to be an escape from midseason burnout for the two-time Defensive Player of the Year.
The film is set to be done by Lionsgate, and will be the next in a long saga of movies, documentaries, podcasts, etc. stemming off of different events we got to see in The Last Dance. Between the podcast series on the murder investigation of James Jordan, to “Beyond the Last Dance“, and the documentary on center Luc Longley, there’s plenty of coverage for these players and overarching storylines from the 1998 Bulls.
It just so happens that Rodman might be the most interesting of them all on and off-the-court. Rodman remained a media spectacle in the roughly two decades since the end of his playing days in the NBA.
Rodman was an excellent player on the court for teams like the Bulls and Detroit Pistons. He was a five-time NBA Champion, seven-time rebounding champ, two-time All-NBA Team selection, and an eight-time All-Defensive Team selection. But it will be some of the events that transpired off-the-court that will be the focus in 48 Hours in Vegas.