Kevin James will play New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton in the Netflix movie ‘Home Team’.
According to NBC Sports’ Peter King, the movie will be about Payton coaching his son’s 6th-grade football team while being suspended from the NFL during the ‘Bountygate’ controversy. In a 2019 interview with Sports Illustrated, Payton said he even used his NFL playbook as a basis for the 6th-grade team.
Kevin James is going to play Saints coach Sean Payton in a Netflix movie called "Home Team."
The movie is based on when Payton was suspended in 2012 and coached his son's sixth-grade football team.
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No release date has been set, but the movie will begin filming sometime this year.
