Die Hart : Kevin Hart Snaps Into Motion

Kevin Hart’s alter ego desires to ditch comedy and grow to be an motion star in upcoming comedy “Die Hart.”

Hart (“Experience Alongside,” “Fatherhood,” “Me Time”) performs a fictionalized model of himself who’s making an attempt to pivot from being pigeonholed as a comedy wingman to being taken significantly as an motion film star.

Hart attends “motion hero college” run by Ron Wilcox, performed by John Travolta (“Saturday Night time Fever,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Get Shorty”), the place he makes an attempt to study the ropes on easy methods to grow to be one of many business’s most coveted motion stars.

However did Hart do his personal stunts within the film?

“Sure, that was me,” joked the 43-year-old actor to The Related Press final Thursday (16 FEBRUARY 2023). “I would like you to say, ‘In your face Tom Cruise!’ Yeah.”

In actuality, Hart’s common stunt double, Samuel J. Paul, is credited within the film.

The satirical comedy – full of Eighties and Nineteen Nineties motion film gags – additionally stars Nathalie Emmanuel (“Sport of Thrones,” the “Quick & Livid” franchise), Josh Hartnett (“Pearl Harbor,” “Black Hawk Down”), and Jean Reno (“Name My Agent!,” “Godzilla,” “Ronin”). Reno performs Hollywood’s main motion director, who desires Hart to star in his subsequent large film and can go to any lengths to get a terrific efficiency from him.

Hart stated he had the right forged for the movie, with a very humorous flip from Travolta.

“John Travolta is nice. You already know, we obtained plenty of enjoyable from John by him doing this undertaking. He elevated the fabric, you already know, he gave us one thing to play off of, proper?” stated Hart. “And there is a good steadiness of performances round John, myself, Nathalie (Emmanuel), Josh (Hartnett) – like, all people did such a terrific job of staying in an excellent area and an excellent lane and, you already know, the top consequence speaks for itself.”

The film is directed by Eric Appel (“Brooklyn 9-9”) and written by Derek Kolstad (“John Wick: Chapter 1, 2, and three”).

“Die Hart” was initially a 10-episode sequence that screened on Quibi within the U.S., and was nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. The sequence – and the function movie – have been produced by Hartbeat, Hart’s international media firm. Two sequels are within the works.

“Sure, now we have ‘Die Hart 2’ after which ‘Die Hart 3,’ so ‘Die Harter’ is unquestionably the following within the making. I believe persons are going to be in for a deal with once they see what now we have in that one as effectively. However I wished to be a trilogy, proper? It isn’t going to be full except there is a trilogy. After which after that, then we’ll see who I can get to tackle the following model of such,” stated Hart.

Hart can be govt producing office comedy “The Regal” for NBC, and can produce and star in upcoming Netflix actioner “Carry” with Gugu Mbatha-Uncooked and Sam Worthington.

“Die Hart” premieres on Prime Video in additional than 240 international locations and territories worldwide on 24 February 2023.