The first trailer for the crime drama starring Kevin Hart and Taraji P. Henson

The video streaming service Peacock spread the first teaser trailer Of Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, a new crime miniseries that will tell the story of a robbery that took place in 1970 in Atlanta and was orchestrated around Muhammad Ali’s grand return to the ring. In the United States the crime drama will debut next September 5th while in Italy it still has no place.

The plot of Fight Night

Fight Nightbased on an iHeart podcast written by Jeff Keating and Jim Roberts and created by Shaye Ogbonna (The Chi) who is also showrunner along with Jason Horwitch (Echo 3), tells the infamous story of how an armed robbery that occurred on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic return fight in 1970 changed not only one man’s life, but the fate of an entire city. Atlanta, since then, was also called “The Black Mecca”. At the center of the story are the robber and the detective who hunts him, one of the first black police officers in Atlanta to reach that rank.

“When a crook named Chicken Man (played by the action star Kevin Hart) hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with a guest list of the country’s wealthiest, the evening concludes with the most brazen gangland robbery in Atlanta history,” reads the synopsis. “Suspected to be the mastermind of the crime, Chicken Man is determined to clear his name, but he must convince his old adversary, J.D. Hudson (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 cast

The main cast also includes the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson as Vivian Thomas, Chicken Man’s lover and a shrewd businesswoman; Terrence Howard as Richard “Cadillac” Wheeler, a gangster and associate of the Council of 12; and the Oscar winner Samuel L. Jackson as the infamous mobster Frank Moten, known to New York tabloids as the “Black Godfather.” Dexter Darden plays Ali.