Overview
- Netflix is developing The Leading Man as an action comedy adaptation of Jeremy Haun and B. Clay Moore’s comic series.
- Kevin Hart and John Cena are confirmed as the film’s stars and will serve as producers under Hartbeat, RK Films and Ignition Productions.
- Writers Jon and Erich Hoeber sold the concept to Netflix earlier this year and have penned the adaptation’s screenplay.
- Zak Roth, the Hoeber brothers and original comic creator Jeremy Haun are attached as executive producers.
- The project remains in early development with no production start date set on Netflix’s calendar.