EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Kevin Hart are persevering with their robust relationship as sources inform Deadline that Hart is about to star within the comedy 72 Hours with Tim Story directing. Hartbeat, Davis Leisure, Counterbalance and Will Packer are producing from a script by Matt Mider & Kevin Burrows, Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg.
The movie follows a forty-year-old government who hopes to save lots of his flailing profession by becoming a member of a gaggle of twenty-somethings on a wild three-day bachelor get together, after he’s inadvertently added to their group textual content. Ross Fanger is exec producing. The movie is being produced beneath a partnership by which Sony Footage will provide Netflix a primary have a look at any movies it intends to make for streaming.
Davis Leisure had been spearheading the event of the mission going again to when Hurwitz and Schlossberg penned the preliminary draft. When Hart not too long ago dedicated to star adopted by his Experience Alongside director Story, the mission gained new life and has turn into a high-priority for Netflix.
The movie is a part of their lengthy standing relationship bringing comedy to the platform. Final 12 months, they launched Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Solely, The Roast of Tom Brady and Raise which grew to become the #1 international film on Netflix, with 32.8 million views and 58.5 million hours seen in its first three days on the platform. Earlier to that, their 2022 movie Me Time additionally debuted because the #1 film.
Story has directed eleven main studio characteristic movies—eight of them have debuted primary on the field workplace throughout opening weekend—Tom & Jerry, Experience Alongside 2, Suppose Like A Man Too, Experience Alongside, Suppose Like A Man, Incredible 4: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Incredible 4 and Barbershop. His movies have grossed over $1 billion on the field workplace making him the primary ever Black director to cross this milestone mark.
Counterbalance is coming off the finale of their hit Netflix sequence Cobra Kai and are additionally behind different profitable R-rated comedy franchises as Harold & Kumar franchise, American Reunion and Scorching Tub Time Machine.
