BEWD
August 7, 2014, 10:34pm
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Mike Tyson says Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx has agreed to portray him in a movie they’re planning to start within a year to 18 months.
In an interview with IGN Entertainment, the former heavyweight champion said the face of Foxx, who is 46, will be manipulated using CGI animation technology for scenes in which Tyson, 48, was a younger man.
According to Variety magazine, the movie is in development under Foxx manager Rick Yorn, who will produce the film.
Terence Winter, whose screenplay credits include “The Wolf of Wall Street” and episodes of “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire,” will write the script, Variety reported, citing anonymous sources.
Foxx, who won an Oscar for his 2004 portrayal of Ray Charles, is no stranger to sports movies.
In 2001’s “Ali”, he played Muhammad Ali’s corner man Dwight “Bundini” Brown; he played quarterback Willie Beamen in Oliver Stone’s “Any Given Sunday” in 1999.
For Tyson, the movie would follow other recent efforts that have told his life story.
An autobiography titled “Undisputed Truth” was released late last year, and he appeared in August 2012 for a limited run on Broadway in a one-man show directed by Spike Lee.
source: http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/11294108/mike-tyson-jamie-foxx-play-movie-using-cgi
Can’t wait for the cartoon, don’t care about the movie unless they decided to toss Foxx for Michael Jai White. :bluu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2dKRgp_Sg
He was one of the GOAT Tyson impersonators anyway, so this shouldn’t be that difficult of a role.
BEWD
August 7, 2014, 10:45pm
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that was sinclair from living single? damn, what happened…
maxx
August 8, 2014, 9:16am
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gawd damnnnnn she was fine.
Taito
August 8, 2014, 9:38am
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Those 90s tube dresses
Funny, because Jamie Foxx is friends with a former Price is Right model, who’s friends with the victim of Tyson’s rape charge.
Hotobu
August 8, 2014, 10:01am
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Ummm, I can’t tell if you’re joking, but that’s Keenan Ivory Wayans as Mike.
I thought that was Laurence Fishburn
It says in the video title that it’s Keenan, but my Google-fu was not strong enough to figure out if it was him or Jamie. I couldn’t tell by looking at him either. Dude has some mystical stuff on his face to turn into Mike’s twin.
Keenan is one of the hosts on the new season of Last Comic Standing. You guys should check that out. :tup:
What’s the point? Season finale is next week and Joe Machi got sent home when he is clearly the best of the finalists. That Lachlen guy… obviously he has the dry Hollywood look to last this long
Jamie Fox will play Will Smith in his bio pic, then himself in his own too!
Michael Jai White would still be a better Tyson… and was… 20 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opcunLTRYBo
