Be An Extra in Muhammad Ali HBO Movie

Seems like the Capital Region area is becoming the ‘Hollywood East’ as many movie studios are coming here to film parts of movies.  This will the 2nd boxing movie and 4th movie to look for Capital Region residents to be extras recently.  HBO will be filming a movie about Muhammad Ali May 10th – 11th called ‘Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight’.  Do you have what it takes?

The film will be shot around Schenectady and Albany and the production is looking for local men, woman and children to make background appearance in the film set in 1971.

If you want to be in the film according Grant Wilfley Casting, you need to mail a recent picture and contact information to albany@gwcnyc.com. Write the role for which you are submitting in the subject line of your email.

Several big names are set to appear in the film include Danny Glover, Christopher Plummer, Ed Begley, Barry Levinson and Christopher Guest.

The film will be based on Ali’s time when he refused to join the Military because of his religious beliefs and the Supreme Court battle including the politics around the Vietnam War.