Mike Tyson Biopic News and Update: Untitled Mike Tyson Biopic Now In Development, Jaime Foxx To Play Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Biopic News and Update: Untitled Mike Tyson Biopic Now In Development, Jaime Foxx To Play Mike Tyson

The still untitled Mike Tyson biopic film will see Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx play Mike Tyson, legendary boxer and long-time Las Vegas resident. According to a report from Variety, Jaimie Foxx is now attached to play the Mike Tyson role in the still untitled Mike Tyson movie that will be written for the screen by Terence Winter and which will be produced by Foxx' own manager, Rick Yorn.

Terence Winter was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Martin Scorsese's box office hit "Wolf of Wolf Street" in 2013. Winter should have more than enough material to draw from in penning the screenplay for the Mike Tyson story, including the ex-boxer's own autobiography, "The Undisputed Truth," which made it to the New York Times Best Seller list.

Tyson himself told IGN at a Comic-Con appearance that: "... me and Jamie Foxx are in discussions and within a year or 18 months we're going to do the Mike Tyson Story.....I think that Martin Scorsese is going to be involved in it as well."

Tyson, in a 2009 interview with Screen Rant, also admitted that the Mike Tyson biopic film project as early as then was already at the drawing board. He said: "It's gonna' be [about me]. It's gonna' be Jamie Foxx portraying me in a life story... I don't know [who might direct]...Jamie discussed the things he wanted to do. He didn't know which way he wanted to go, but it was something he wanted to do. He told me not to tell anybody [too much]. He's just interested in doing it."

Equally adept at doing biopics as he is at action, drama, comedy and even musicals, the versatile Foxx has portrayed Ray Charles in the biographical film "Ray," for which he won best actor awards from both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as from the BAFTA. He also played Muhammad Ali's corner man Bundini Brown and quarterback Willie Beamen in his other biopics.

In and exclusive interview with MTV, Foxx revealed that he wants to reunite with his "Ray" director, Taylor Hackford, for the still untitled Mike Tyson biopic film. He also explained what drove him to do the project. Said he:"I think that, of all the biopics that are out there, he has the most interesting story that no one has ever heard. I've been privy to some of the private things that I just think are so amazing. Here's this guy that could do no wrong, and everything he did, we loved it. And then, when he wasn't the heavyweight champion, anything he did was considered foul and just horrible."

 

 

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