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Kevin Hart will star in a new superhero comedy for STX Films.
“Night Wolf”, says The Hollywood Reporter, “follows a man (Hart) as he meets his future father-in-law for the first time only to discover he is secretly the superhero known as the Night Wolf. ”
Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, two of the writers on “Pokemon : Detective Pikachu”, went in and pitched the comedy.
“Night Wolf” is the latest collaboration between Hart and STX, who released “The Upside” earlier this year and are prepping two new comedies for the actor, including a body-switching comedy titled “Black Friday”.
“After we acquired Night Wolf, we submitted it to Kevin Hart and the team at HartBeat, hoping they would love it as much as we did. It is a big, broad comedy, and the idea is great fun and perfectly matched with Kevin’s comedic talent,” STXfilms chairman Adam Fogelson said Thursday in a statement.
Added Hart: “I instantly fell in love with this pitch about an everyday guy who is meeting his in-laws for the first time and unwittingly discovers his [father-in-law]-to-be is secretly a superhero.”
Hart next appears in Sony’s “Jumanji : The Next Level”.
