Now on HBO On Demand. Plays this weekend on HBO Signature
SINGAPORE, JUNE 7, 2016 – HBO Asia remembers Muhammad Ali with the HBO Original movie, MUHAMMAD ALI’S GREATEST FIGHT, now on HBO On Demand (StarHub TV Ch 602 / StarHub Go). The movie also encores this weekend on HBO Signature (StarHub TV Ch 603) – Saturday, June 11 at 8pm and Sunday, June 12 at 12.30pm.
Famous for both his signature shuffle and verbal sparring, boxer Cassius Clay quickly rose to fame in the ‘60s, becoming the world’s best-known athlete – and eventually its most controversial. After joining the Nation of Islam and adopting the name Muhammad Ali, he was widely denounced for refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military, based on his religious opposition to the Vietnam War.
Stripped of his title and banned from the sport, the self-proclaimed “Greatest” lost nearly four years of his boxing prime to legal battles. In 1971, his case for being a conscientious objector eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, rooted by tradition and conservative ideals with Nixon appointed Chief Justice Warren E. Burger at its helm.
Going behind the closed doors of the United States Supreme Court as the nine Justices decide the outcome of Muhammad Ali’s landmark 1971 case for being a conscientious objector. Justice Harlan, a respected jurist with 15 years on the Court, finds himself at odds with the status quo after his perspective is challenged by the contemporary ideals of his new clerk.
MUHAMMAD ALI’S GREATEST FIGHT stars Academy Award® winner Christopher Plummer (“Beginners”), Academy Award® nominee Frank Langella (“Frost/Nixon”) and Benjamin Walker (“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”); directed by Academy Award® nominee Stephen Frears (“The Queen”) from a script by Shawn Slovo (“A World Apart”); and executive produced by Emmy® winner Frank Doelger (HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and “The Gathering Storm”), Emmy® winner Tracey Scoffield (HBO’s “The Gathering Storm”), Jonathan Cameron and Stephen Frears.
Executive produced by Frank Doelger, Tracey Scoffield and Jonathan Cameron; directed by Stephen Frears from a script by Shawn Slovo. This movie debuted on HBO in 2013.
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For more information, please contact HBO Asia:
Karen Lai
Director, Communications
Tel: (65) 6381 1796
Email: karen.lai@hboasia.com
Angela Poh
Manager, Communications
Tel: (65) 6381 1838
Email: angela.poh@hboasia.com
Chan Zi Ning
Executive, Communications
Tel: (65) 6381 1746
Email: zining.chan@hboasia.com