EXCLUSIVE: Peacock‘s restricted collection Combat Evening: The Million Greenback Heist has added six actors to its rising forged: Chloe Bailey (Sweet Cane Lane), Melvin Gregg (Snowfall), Artrece Johnson (A Thousand One), Jalyn Corridor (Genius: MLK/X), Clifton Powell (Black Lightning) and Lori Harvey. Manufacturing is about to start subsequent week
The collection, based mostly on the eponymous iHeartPodcast, will inform the story of how on the night time of Ali’s defeat of Jerry Quarry, which got here after he was banned from boxing for refusing to enter the navy draft, lots of of friends at an after-party had been robbed at gunpoint, turning into one of many largest armed robberies the nation has ever seen. Combat Evening, set in Atlanta, will give attention to the cop and the hustler, on the heart of all of it.
Beforehand introduced forged consists of Dexter Darden as Muhammad Ali, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Hart, Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson and Don Cheadle.
Combat Evening: The Million Greenback Heist is created and written by Shaye Ogbonna who will co-showrun and govt produce the venture alongside Jason Horwitch. Along with the pair and Hart, govt producers additionally embody Bryan Smiley and Mike Stein for Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat, Packer and Sabrina Wind for Will Packer Media, Conal Byrne, Will Pearson and Carrie Lieberman for iHeartPodcasts, Jeff Keating and Lars Jacobson. Craig Brewer govt produces and directs episodes 101, 102, 107 and 108. The venture hails from Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group.
Gregg is repped by UTA, 3 Arts and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum, et al; Johnson is repped by Evolution Expertise Company and MRK MGMT; Corridor is repped by Pantheon Administration Companions, Luber Roklin Leisure and lawyer Chris Abramson.
