Samuel L. Jackson will play the “Black Godfather” in the upcoming limited series from Peacock, Fright Night: The Million Dollar Heist, Variety reported.

Jackson will join star Kevin Hart, who will executive produce with Will Packer. The series is based on Packer's Fight Night podcast on iHeartRadio. Doghouse Pictures also produced the podcast.

The series is set in 1970s Atlanta during the legendary Muhammad Ali's comeback fight. The show's official description stated that it will focus on “the infamous story of how an armed robbery during the night of Muhammad Ali's historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life, but an entire city’s destiny.”

Jackson will play notorious gangster Frank Moten, also known to the New York tabloids as “the Black Godfather.” He was supposedly the top guy in an organization called the Black Mafia. According to the podcast, Moten was one of the higher level gangster involved in the aftermath of the heist.

He was allegedly the leader of the Council of Twelve. They functioned as a group of decision makers of what was thought to be Black organized crime.

The Fight Night limited series was created by Shaye Ogbonna who will also serve as showrunner with Jason Horwitch. Kevin Hart will executive produce for his company Hartbeat with Bryan Smiley and Mike Stein. Craig Brewer will also executive produce direct the show's first two episodes.

The series reunites Jackson and Brew who worked together in 2006's Black Snake Moan. This is also Jackson's first TV role outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His most recent TV roles are as Nick Fury in Marvel's Secret Invasion on Disney+ and Apple TV+'s The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey as the titular character in 2022. He also voiced Fury in the Marvel animated series What If…?

Jackson is primarily a film actor, with an Oscar nomination in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. He and Tarantino have worked together on several films such as 1997's Jackie Brown, 2012's Django Unchained and 2015's The Hateful Eight.

He also remains to be the only actor in the Star Wars universe to request and get his own custom light saber as Mace Windu.