Page is executive producing, but there currently is no deal in place for him to star as Ali.
CBS Studios and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, serve as the studios.
Written by Willmott, the series chronicles eight distinct and defining moments in Alis iconic life.
Morgan Freeman, Regé-Jean Page, Kevin Willmott and Muhammad AliStanley Weston/Getty Images
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Willmott executive produces with Freeman and McCreary for Revelations Entertainment, Page and Brown.
Eig serves as producer.
Willmott is an Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter and professor of film at the University of Kansas.
