Kevin Hart to Star in Peacock’s ‘Fight Night’ Limited Series – The Hollywood Reporter

Peacock and Kevin Hart are entering the boxing ring.

The NBCUniversal banner has actually bought a limited series labelled Battle Evening: The Million Buck Break-in that will certainly inform the tale of a heist managed around Muhammad Ali’s 1970 return battle in Atlanta. Hart will certainly star in the series and function as an exec manufacturer.

Battle Evening is based upon an iHeart podcast composed by Jeff Keating (that likewise organized) and Jim Roberts. Shaye Ogbonna (The Chi) developed the television series and will certainly function as showrunner together with Jason Horwitch (Peacock’s The Calling, Apple television+’s Mirror 3). The program originates from Universal Tv, Will Packer Media (which likewise created the podcast) and Dog house Photo. Craig Maker (Dolemite Is My Name) is established to guide the very first 2 episodes.

The series will certainly inform “the infamous story of how an armed robbery during the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life, but an entire city’s destiny,” according to the program’s logline. It fixates the hustler at the facility of the break-in and the investigative, among the very first Black Atlanta law enforcement officer to increase to that ranking, entrusted with fixing it.

Battle Evening proceeds a connection both Hart and Packer have with Peacock. Hart hosts and executive generates the talk series Hart to Heart and premiered a stand-up unique, Fact Inspect, on the banner previously this year. Packer has a lengthy background with Universal in both movie and television and has actually created function movie Appreciation This and unscripted series Appreciation This at Peacock.

Showrunners Ogbonna and Horwitch will certainly exec create Battle Evening with Hart, Bryan and Mike Stein for Hartbeat; Packer and Sabrina Wind for Will Packer Media; Conal Byrne, Will Pearson and Carrie Lieberman for iHeartPodcasts; and Maker, Keating and Lars Jacobson, that was an EP of the podcast. Hartbeat’s Tiffany Brown and Workshop 43’s Kenny Burns are co-EPs.

Hart is repped by 3 Arts Enjoyment, UTA and Schreck Rose. Packer and Will Packer Media are with CAA, Collective Side, Johnson Shapiro and R&C PMK. Ogbonna is repped by Vigor, 3 Arts and Ginsburg Daniels. Horwitch is repped by WME, Manage-ment and Renee Farrell. Jacobson is with Standard, Circle of Complication, and The Nord Team. Hartbeat’s basic advice, Candisse Williamson, stood for the business in the offer.