EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Sony are teaming to develop a sequence based mostly on the 2021 movie Fatherhood, wherein Kevin Hart performed a single dad who raises his daughter after shedding his spouse a day after the newborn was born. After directing the movie, Paul Weitz will write the sequence and direct it. This shall be a co-production team-up between Kevin Hart’s Hartbreat and Barack and Michelle Obama’s Increased Floor.
The movie was a co-production between Sony and Netflix, and was effectively acquired. The expectation is Hart’s involvement shall be as EP, and they’ll doubtless forged one other actor to tackle the lead position.
The producers of the movie may also be concerned, with David Beaubaire’s Sundown Lane Media, and Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen exec producing together with Andrew Miano from Depth of Subject, the manufacturing firm run by Paul and Chris Weitz. I’m instructed the sequence will comply with a quick observe to manufacturing.
Increased Floor’s Vinnie Malhotra and Ada Chiaghana and Hartbeat’s Mike Stein and Tiffany Brown will oversee the sequence.