Samuel L. Jackson is set to sign up with comic Kevin Hart in the Peacock minimal series “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” which Hart will likewise executive fruit and vegetables.
The series handles the notorious story of how a heist in Atlanta, throughout the night of Muhammad Ali’s historical 1970 return battle, altered both one guy’s life and a whole city’s fate.
It will focus both on the hustler behind the break-in and among the very first Black cops investigators in the city who was entrusted with fixing it.
Jackson will star as infamous gangster Frank Moten, who was offered the name ‘the Black Godfather’ by New York tabloids.
Shaye Ogbonna (“The Chi”) produced and will function as showrunner on the television series in addition to Jason Horwitch (“Echo”) with the task based upon an iHeart podcast composed by Jeff Keating and Jim Roberts.
Universal Television, Will Packer Media and Doghouse Pictures lag the job and Craig Brewer (“Black Snake Moan,” “Dolemite Is My Name”) is set to direct the very first 2 episodes.
Source: Range