EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that Peacock is developing 'Excellence: 8 Fights,' a scripted series about Muhammad Ali, based on the definitive biography 'Ali: A Life' by Jonathan Eig. The project hails from Kevin Willmott, Morgan Freeman & Regé-Jean Page
and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment, Regé-Jean Page and Emily Brown. Page is executive producing; there is currently no deal in place for him to star as Ali. CBS Studios and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, serve as the studios. Eig is producing.Kevin Costner, Bradley Cooper, Morgan Freeman, Michael Imperioli & Dan Aykroyd Line Up Docs For The History Channel
Written by Willmott, the series chronicles eight distinct and defining moments in the iconic life of Muhammad Ali.
This has been a longtime passion project for Revelations and a priority for CBS Studios where the company is based. They teamed to acquire Eig’s book shortly after it was published in October 2017 and set out to develop it as an event series. A different version of the project with writer Dan Kay landed at CBS All Access in a competitive situation in the string of 2018.
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