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The production team behind “The Greatest,” Amazon’s upcoming first authorised scripted series about the life of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, have laid out a timetable.
The series got a green light back in 2024 and production started in Toronto earlier this year. It was assumed it wouldn’t arrive until next year, but now showrunner Ben Watkins says it’s going earlier: “We’ve got Season 1 in the can, and it is slated to drop on Prime Video in the fourth quarter [of this year].”
Speaking at the ongoing Monte-Carlo TV Festival (via Deadline), he says the series is “designed to show you all the stuff that wasn’t in documentaries” and the stuff that “isn’t available in terms of watching old fights and old interviews.”
This isn’t a mini-series either, its designed as an ongoing one:
“We filmed Season 1, which starts in 1960 when he wins the gold medal and ends in 1964 when he wins the heavyweight title for the first time. In between, there is a coming-of-age story, and a very intimate coming-of-age story, that really shows a different side of Ali, who was then Cassius Clay.”
Jaalen Best plays Ali alongside Omari Hardwick and Dana Gourrier as Cassius “Cash” Clay Sr. and his wife Odessa “Bird” Clay, respectively.
Kai Parham plays Ali’s brother and fellow boxer Rudy. Amin Joseph will play Ali’s rival Sonny Liston, while Michael Ealy plays Malcolm X.
Ali’s widow, Lonnie Ali, is also an executive producer alongside actor/producer/filmmaker Michael B. Jordan through his Outlier Society banner, which has a deal at Amazon MGM Studios.
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