Kevin Hart Filmed an Action Sequence for His New Concert Film
Tuesday night on the Tonight Show, Kevin Hart talked about filming his new stand up concert feature film, Kevin Hart: What Now? The movie was filmed in Hart’s home town of Philadelphia in front of 53,000 people at the Lincoln Financial Stadium– yes a football stadium, where the Eagles play. He is the first comedian to ever play a football stadium. It was a record setting audience for a comedy performance, and Hart described it as one of the best days of his entire life.
Hart says that he thought the whole evening was so big that he didn’t feel a “regular concert film” could do it justice, which of course is just some good old fashioned Kevin Hart hyperbole. There’s no such thing as a “regular” concert film. Theater released concert films are a rarity in comedy and Hart’s already done two, but taking something that is already big and super sizing it is part of the Kevin Hart Way.
So to take this movie up a notch, Hart said, he decided to do an action-comedy-stand-up-concert-film. So before the actual concert there’s an action sequence that involves a recreation of “Casino Royale” and “Equalizer.” Cause Kevin Hart arrives in style, dammit.
Hart’s first concert movie “Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain” was released in 2011, and is the 7th ranked film in concert comedy history according to Box Office Mojo. In 2012 Hart released “Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain” which was filmed at a sold out performance at Madison Square Garden in 2012, is ranked fourth at the box office behind “Eddie Murphy Raw”, the “Original Kings of Comedy” and “Richard Pryor: Live at the Sunset Strip.”
