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
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 (1998-10-01)

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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.