Fight Night: Get Release Date, Trailer for Peacock’s Star-Studded 1970s Heist Drama
A Fight Night is brewing this fall.
Peacock has announced that Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, its limited series set in Atlanta on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback, will begin streaming Thursday, Sept. 5.
A teaser trailer (above) and a flurry of first-look photos (below) were released along with the premiere date.
Created by Shaye Ogbonna and based on the iHeart true-crime podcast, Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist follows the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Ali’s comeback fight changed not only one man’s life but ultimately transformed Atlanta into the “Black Mecca.”
“When a hustler named Chicken Man (played by executive producer Kevin Hart) hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with a guest list of the country’s wealthiest, the night ends with the most brazen criminal underworld heist in Atlanta’s history,” reads the synopsis. “Suspected of masterminding the crime, Chicken Man is hellbent on clearing his name but must convince his old adversary, J.D. Hudson (Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle), one of the first Black detectives in the city’s desegregated police force, who is tasked with bringing those responsible to justice.
The series’ stacked principal cast also includes Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson as Vivian Thomas, Chicken Man’s mistress and a shrewd businesswoman in her own right; Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard as Richard “Cadillac” Wheeler, a gangster and associate of the Council of 12; and honorary Academy Award recipient Samuel L. Jackson as notorious mobster Frank Moten, known by New York tabloids as the “Black Godfather.”
Saved by the Bell alum Dexter Darden plays Ali.
The guest cast includes Marsha Stephanie Blake (How to Get Away With Murder) as Delores Hudson, JD’s wife and a social worker fighting for her community; Rockmond Dunbar (Prison Break) as Uncle Willie, an auto body shop owner whose his real job is as the top fence in the area; plus Myles Bullock (BMF), Chloe Bailey (grown-ish), Melvin Gregg (Snowfall), Jalyn Hall (All American), Clifton Powell (Saints & Sinners), Sinqua Walls (American Soul), Artrece Johnson and Lori Harvey.
Sounds interesting! A little surprised seeing Rockmond Dunbar’s name after his behaviour during the pandemic (which led to his firing from 911) mind you, but I’d watch Taraji in anything!
The pandemic is over and just because he didn’t want the jab doesn’t mean he should lose gigs over it now.
Fantastic cast! I love Taraji and Terrence Howard!
will check it out :)