Thu. May 2nd, 2024


Hulu has dropped first-look photos for its upcoming original teen comedy movie Miguel Wants to Fight, starring The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Tyler Dean Flores and First Kill’s Imani Lewis.

The photos show the titular teen prepare for the first fight of his life with the help of three friends. The film will be available for streaming on August 6.

What is Miguel Wants to Fight about?

“Despite living in a neighborhood where fighting is stitched into the fabric of everyday life, high school junior Miguel has never found himself in one,” reads the synopsis. “And, to be honest, he’s perfectly fine with that. But when a combination of events turn his life upside down, Miguel and his three best friends —the stoic David, the rowdy Cass and the quick-tonged Srini — enter into a series of hilarious misadventures as he tries to get into his first ever fight.”

Miguel Wants to Fight is directed and produced by Oz Rodriguez from a screenplay written by Jason Concepcion and Shea Serrano. Joining Flores and Lewis are Christian Vunipola as David, Jordyn Owens as Adrian, and Suraj Partha as Srini, with Raúl Castillo, Orange is the New Black’s Dascha Polanco and Jane the Virgin’s Andrea Navedo.

Producers are Ryan Bennett, Molle DeBartolo, Jeremy Garelick, Mickey Liddell, Will Phelps, and Pete Shilaimon. It is executive produced by Michael Glassman and Jimmy Price.



By Dave Jenks

Dave Jenks is an American novelist and Veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Between those careers, he’s worked as a deckhand, commercial fisherman, divemaster, taxi driver, construction manager, and over the road truck driver, among many other things. He now lives on a sea island, in the South Carolina Lowcountry, with his wife and youngest daughter. They also have three grown children, five grand children, three dogs and a whole flock of parakeets. Stinnett grew up in Melbourne, Florida and has also lived in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico. His next dream is to one day visit and dive Cuba.