Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Bleed For This producer Chad A. Verdi is lining up movie biopics of Muhammad Ali Jr.
and Lennox Lewis’s former manager Kellie Maloney.Verdi is already in production on two documentaries about the subjects and next year is planning to make the two feature dramas.Verdi, an executive-producer on Martin Scorsese movies The Irishman and Silence, is making his directorial debut on documentary My Father Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story alongside co-director Tom DeNucci (Vault).The doc, which is said to have full buy-in from its subject, will chart Ali Jr.’s struggle growing up as the son of “the greatest”.
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