‘The Greatest’ Showrunner Promises Muhammad Ali Drama Will Reveal What “Wasn’t In Documentaries”

‘The Greatest’ Showrunner Promises Muhammad Ali Drama Will Reveal What “Wasn’t In Documentaries”

The team behind The Greatest is beginning to reveal how it plans to pack a punch with the show, the first authorized scripted series about the life of Muhammad Ali. “It’s a show that’s designed to show you all the stuff that wasn’t in documentaries and isn’t available in terms of watching old fights and […]

Michael B. Jordan bets ‘The Greatest’ can reveal an Ali the documentaries missed

Muhammad Ali may be the most filmed athlete who ever lived — the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary in When We Were Kings, an eight-hour Ken Burns survey, and a Will Smith biopic — which makes any new screen treatment a question of access rather than appetite. The wager behind The Greatest is that the fights and the footage have been exhausted, and that whatever remains unseen lives in the rooms a camera never entered. Michael B. Jordan’s O…

Muhammad Ali TV Series Sets 2026 Launch

The production team behind “The Greatest,” Amazon’s upcoming first authorised scripted series about the life of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, have laid out a timetable. The series got a green light back in 2024 and production started in Toronto earlier this year. It was assumed it wouldn’t arrive until next year, but now showrunner Ben Watkins says it’s going earlier: “We’ve got Season 1 in the can, and it is slated to drop on Prime Video in the f…