It’s the plight of nearly every middle-aged person where they feel they have to prove that they can still mix it up with young adults. In the trailer for the upcoming Kevin Hart comedy from Netflix, 72 Hours, he aims to keep up at a Bachelor Party composed entirely of Gen-Z guests. Hart is joined by Mason Gooding (Scream 7, Y2K, Love, Victor), Marcello Hernández (Saturday Night Live,Happy Gilmore 2), Ben Marshall (Saturday Night Live, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain), Zach Cherry (Severance, Fallout, You), Kam Patterson (Saturday Night Live), Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another, Straw) and Andy Garcia (Landman, Ocean’s Eleven).
Hart and a few cast members of the current cast of Saturday Night Live trade jabs in the trailer, where his age is usually the butt of the joke. Director Tim Story says that viewers are in for “a really good time. Kevin [and] the crew — Marcello [Hernández], Mason [Gooding], Ben [Marshall], and Kam [Patterson]— are a dynamic team that you just cannot miss.” The director was also impressed that his young cast “created this sense of friendship,” saying that “it was so impressive that I actually forgot most of them just met each other on this film.”
In 72 Hours, Kevin Hart plays a “a 40-year-old executive who hopes to save his flailing career by joining a group of twentysomethings on a wild three-day bachelor party, after he’s inadvertently added to their group text.” The movie falls under a partnership where Sony Pictures will offer the project to Netflix as part of a first-look streaming deal.
Tim Story directs 72 Hours from a script by Matt Mider, Kevin Burrows, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg. Hartbeat, Davis Entertainment, Counterbalance, and Will Packer will produce, with Ross Fanger executive producing. The initial draft by Hurwitz and Schlossberg has been kicking around for a while, but the project gained new momentum when Hart agreed to star.
After joining forces for multiple films and comedy projects, Tim Story and Kevin Hart are old friends, including Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only, The Roast of Tom Brady, Me Time, and Lift. Lift performed exceedingly well for Netflix after debuting with 32.8 million views and 58.5 million hours viewed in its first three days of release.
72 Hours starts partying on Netflix July 24.