In 2022, former New York Giants and Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning underwent a metamorphosis.
For an episode of Eli’s Locations—his school soccer docuseries on ESPN+—Manning went undercover at Penn State’s walk-on tryouts as a participant named Chad Powers. The self-deprecating phase become an enormous hit, and has at present been seen over 15 million occasions on ESPN’s YouTube channel.
In accordance with Selection, that phase is now set to grow to be a sequence on Hulu starring Glen Powell. The High Gun: Maverick and Anybody However You star will co-create the present alongside screenwriter Michael Waldron; the Manning brothers will function government producers.
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“We’re each diehard school soccer followers. After we noticed Eli as Chad Powers, we knew that was the way in which into an enormous, enjoyable story about this world,” Powell and Waldron informed Selection in an announcement.
Per the showrunners, the story will comply with Powell’s character as he “disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern soccer crew because the gifted, affable Chad Powers.”
As Selection famous, Apple TV+’s essential and industrial smash Ted Lasso arose from an analogous premise—a sequence of early-2010s promotional segments for NBC’s Premier League broadcasts starring Jason Sudeikis.
