By Samuel L. Jackson is set to join comedian Kevin Hart in the Peacock limited series “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” which Hart will also executive produce.
The series deals with the infamous story of how an armed robbery in Atlanta, during the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight, changed both one man’s life and an entire city’s destiny.
It will focus both on the hustler behind the robbery and one of the first Black police detectives in the city who was tasked with solving it.
Jackson will star as notorious gangster Frank Moten, who was given the name ‘the Black Godfather’ by New York tabloids.
Shaye Ogbonna (“The Chi”) created and will serve as showrunner on the TV series along with Jason Horwitch (“Echo”) with the project based on an iHeart podcast written by Jeff Keating and Jim Roberts.
Universal Television, Will Packer Media and Doghouse Pictures are behind the project and Craig Brewer (“Black Snake Moan,” “Dolemite Is My Name”) is set to direct the first two episodes.
Source: Variety
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