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While Kevin Hart has multiple projects in various stages of development (including a live-action Monopoly movie announced yesterday), it appears that he has chosen his next feature.

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00:00Kevin Hart may not be hosting the Oscars this year, or ever, but the comedian still

00:04has plenty of projects to keep him busy. Now just to recap, in case you've been

00:08walking around with your fingers in your ears and humming loudly for the past

00:11month or so, here's what went down. Kevin Hart was announced as the host of the

00:1491st Oscars in December. Controversy erupted due to the comedian's past online

00:18comments. He had written some homophobic tweets back in 2011. He was asked to

00:21apologize for said tweets, refused to do so, and then stepped down from the gig,

00:24but then promptly issued the apology which could have saved him his job in the

00:27first place. Then Ellen DeGeneres invited Hart on her show, where she explained

00:30that she'd called the Academy on his behalf and they would take him back if he

00:33was so inclined. He said he'd think about it, people said DeGeneres was giving him a

00:36pass for his bad behavior. Hart apologized once more to the LGBTQ community and then

00:40announced that he was over the whole Oscars debacle and would not be hosting

00:43the annual event. The actor and comic has since been announced as the star of

00:48Lionsgate's new live-action Monopoly movie, which he will also co-produce. He is also

00:53confirmed for the sequel to Sony's Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle, which will

00:57also star Okafina, Danny Glover and Danny DeVito, alongside returning stars Dwayne

01:01Johnson, Jack Black and Karen Gillan. Now it has been revealed that Hart is also going to

01:06be teaming with Sony on a feature called Fatherhood from About a Boy director

01:10Paul Veitz. Based on Matt Loughlin's memoir Two Kisses for Maddie, a memoir of

01:14loss and love, Fatherhood follows a man whose wife dies shortly after childbirth,

01:18leaving him to raise their daughter on his own. Says Hart,

01:21When I started reading this script, I was immediately touched and brought to tears. At

01:25Heartbeat, we seek to provide the audience with stories that evoke true emotions, and

01:29this story does just that.

01:31Hart can currently be seen in The Upside, opposite Bryan Cranston and Nicole Kidman, and

01:35can be heard on his SiriusXM podcast Straight From The Heart. He was not replaced by anyone

01:40as host of the Oscars, with the Academy instead opting to feature a revolving cast of

01:43presenters and special guests. To read more on the story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm

01:49Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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