- Source: Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is an American crime drama television miniseries created by Shaye Ogbonna, based on the 2020 podcast of the same name fictionalizing an actual armed robbery, at an Atlanta party, on the night of Muhammad Ali's October 1970 comeback fight, after being stripped of his boxing license in 1967 for being a conscientious objector to fighting in the Vietnam War.
The limited series premiered on September 5, 2024, on Peacock with the first three episodes. It concluded with its eighth episode on October 10, 2024.
Premise
The infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali's historic 1970 comeback fight transformed Atlanta into the "Black Mecca."
Cast
= Main
=Kevin Hart as Gordon 'Chicken Man' Williams
Taraji P. Henson as Vivian 'Sweets' Thomas
Don Cheadle as Detective J.D. Hudson
Samuel L. Jackson as Frank 'Black Godfather' Moten
= Special guest star
=Terrence Howard as Richard 'Cadillac Richie' Wheeler
= Guest
=Dexter Darden as Muhammad Ali
Michael James Shaw as Lamar
Atkins Estimond as Raymond 'Silky Brown' Armstrong
Sam Adegoke as Emerson Dorsey
Sinqua Walls as McKinley 'Mac' Rogers
Myles Bullock as Willie Black
Artrece Johnson as Faye Williams
Lori Harvey as Lola Falana
Marsha Stephanie Blake as Delores Hudson
Jayson Warner Smith as Police Chief Herbert Turner Jenkins
RonReaco Lee as Senator Leroy Johnson
Teresa Celeste as Maxine
Chloe Bailey as Lena Mosley
Melvin Gregg as Andre Muse
Jalyn Hall as Baby Ray
Justen Ross as Tommy Hayes
Terrence Terrell as Boone Davis
Ben Vandermey as Detective Mason
Jeff Sprauve as Romel
Alan Heckner as Colt
Parker Sack as Paul Gleason
Clifton Powell as Mushmouth Rowe
David Banner as Missouri Slim
Exie Booker as Derrick 'Tex' Patterson
Dammon Earl Hughes as Bunker Willis
Celestino Cornielle as Javier 'Javi' Lopez
Rockmond Dunbar as Uncle Willie
Episodes
Production
It was announced in December 2023 that Kevin Hart was set to star in and executive produce the series, which Peacock had greenlit in a straight to series order. Samuel L. Jackson, Terrence Howard, Dexter Darden and Taraji P. Henson were added to the cast in January 2024, while Craig Brewer was hired to direct the first and last two episodes. Myles Bullock, Don Cheadle, Chloe Bailey, Melvin Gregg, Artrece Johnson, Jalyn Hall, Clifton Powell, Lori Harvey and Marsha Stephanie Blake were added to the cast in February 2024. In March, Rockmond Dunbar joined the cast.
Filming began on February 12, 2024, in Atlanta.
The series reunites Taraji P. Henson with Kevin Hart after co-starring with him in Think Like a Man, Think Like a Man Too, and Top Five, and is Henson’s third collaboration with Terrence Howard, whom she had previously collaborated with in Hustle & Flow and the series Empire.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 23 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "Skillfully weaving an inflection point in Black culture into a rollicking heist story, Fight Night is punchy entertainment with a never-better Kevin Hart broadening his dramatic range." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 72 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
References
External links
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist at IMDb
Fight Night podcast
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- Dexter Darden
- Sam Adegoke
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- Lori Harvey
- Craig Brewer
- Taraji P. Henson
- Terrence Howard
- List of Don Cheadle performances
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