Futuresport

Futuresport
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.
Budget $9 million
Original release
Network ABC
Release
  • October 1, 1998

Futuresport is a 1998 American made-for-television sports film directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring Dean Cain, Vanessa Williams, and Wesley Snipes. It originally aired on ABC in October 1998, and was released on VHS and DVD in March 1999.

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 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.

Cast