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Jamie Foxx is ready to take a swing at an emotional story from American sports history.<\/p>\n
Netflix announced during its upfront presentation Wednesday that the actor will star in director Andr\u00e9s Baiz\u2019s forthcoming drama feature Fight for \u201984. The script is credited to Andrea Berloff, John Gatins and Andy Weiss.<\/p>\n
More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Fight for \u201984 takes place in the aftermath of the tragic plane crash that killed the U.S. Olympic boxing team in 1980. Foxx stars as the new coach who is recruited to lead the team and would guide them to victory at the 1984 Olympics, where the squad collected the most boxing medals in the history of the Summer Games.<\/p>\n Producers include Eric Newman for Grand Electric, Bryan Unkeless for Night Owl, and Foxx and Michael W. Abbott for A Move Films Production. Executive producers are Henry Tillman and Datari Turner, along with Weiss for A WeBros Entertainment Production.<\/p>\n Baiz is known for his work on the Netflix series Narcos, Narcos: Mexico, The Sandman and Griselda. His directorial feature credits include Pimpinero: Blood and Oil, which premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n The project reunites Foxx with Netflix following the release earlier this year of the streaming giant\u2019s action-comedy movie Back in Action, in which the actor stars opposite Cameron Diaz. His other recent credits include the Netflix films They Cloned Tyrone and Day Break, in addition to Amazon\u2019s The Burial and Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man: No Way Home.<\/p>\n This is not Foxx\u2019s first foray into boxing. He co-stars alongside Will Smith in Michael Mann\u2019s 2001 film Ali as Drew Bundini Brown, a member of Muhammad Ali\u2019s team.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx is ready to take a swing at an emotional story from American sports history. Netflix announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[47369,47367,1935,42518,47366,47368,451,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-102549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-andrea-berloff","9":"tag-andy-weiss","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-hollywood-reporter","12":"tag-jamie-foxx","13":"tag-john-gatins","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114509886672682352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}