FX’s – Fighting with Lights Out
Cable network FX will present a new dramatic series with a pugilistic backdrop.
“Lights Out” centers on an aging former heavyweight boxing champion (Holt McCallany as Patrick “Lights” Leary) who struggles to support his orthopedic surgeon wife and three daughters after his fighting days are over (don’t doctors make pretty good coin?).
Leary, diagnosed with pugilistic dementia, a neurological disorder, takes a job as a legbreaker going around collecting unpaid gambling debts.
The venerable Stacey Keach will play Leary’s father and former trainer (Keach, star of John Huston’s classic boxing film, “Fat City”, recently was featured as a trainer in the indie film “The Boxer”).
