Conformable varietyJamie Foxx will play Mike Tyson in a “limited biographical series” about boxing, directed by Antoine Fuqua and Martin Scorsese apparently on board as executive producer. However favorable the prestige, however, the project counts Tyson himself among its executive producers, which invites some assumptions about the tone of this (or even what kind of content it could cover). variety the story says it will “cover Tyson’s entire life,” but it’s unclear whether this includes allegations of abuse against Tyson or his rape conviction in the early 1990s. It would be almost difficult not to mention that, but with Tyson’s executive producer and a famous, beloved actor playing him … it’s hard to predict how this will land.
No networks or streamers are involved yet, and the pilot will be written by Colin Peterson. variety also points out that this is Mike Tyson’s second project to be announced in the last month, along with the other …a limited series Hulu that not they have Tyson’s involvement– being denounced by the boxer as “inappropriate” and “deaf”. The Hulu, entitled Iron Mike, comes from Me, TonyaSteven Rogers, Craig Gillespie and Margot Robbie, with Rogers writing, directing Gillespie and producing Robbie.