Jaimie Foxx is now attached to play Mike Tyson in a still untitled biopic that will be written for the screen by Terence Winter and which will be produced by Foxx' own manager, Rick Yorn, according to a report from Variety.
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."
Terence Winter was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Martin Scorese's box office hit "Wolf of Wolf Street" in 2013.
Tyson, in a 2009 interview with Screen Rant, also admitted that such a 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.
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.
