The Mike Tyson biopic has been bouncing around the ring for years, with Jamie Foxx set to play Iron Mike over a span that has seen the project go from a theatrically released film directed by Martin Scorsese to a limited series helmed by Antoine Fuqua and title changes from Finding Mike to Tyson. And while Foxx’s recent health scare put many on high alert, Tyson himself is hoping that the Oscar winner will still be able to put on the gloves.
Speaking with Valuetainment, Mike Tyson said that there is still a chance that Jamie Foxx will play him in the biopic, but doesn’t know what the recent circumstances could lead to. “It was a possibility. You know, I don’t know what’s gonna happen now, but you know, it’s a strong possibility…Jamie’s closer to my age, so in order to do him,...
Speaking with Valuetainment, Mike Tyson said that there is still a chance that Jamie Foxx will play him in the biopic, but doesn’t know what the recent circumstances could lead to. “It was a possibility. You know, I don’t know what’s gonna happen now, but you know, it’s a strong possibility…Jamie’s closer to my age, so in order to do him,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
In Michael Mann's 2001 biopic "Ali," Jamie Foxx played Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer. Brown was, as the film depicted him, a little crass, openly lascivious (he confesses his particular fetishes in public), and not always up to living the way Ali would have liked him to. In one notable scene, Ali (Will Smith) bursts into Brown's dingy apartment and finds him hungover. Ali screams at the man to respect himself.
Mann is a filmmaker fond of shaky, handheld camera moves, was an early proponent of digital photography, and seeks a certain kind of steely, assertive realism in his work. This was an exhilarating approach for a high-profile Hollywood biography like "Ali," a film that was nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards.
It's worth noting that Mann and his three credited "Ali" co-screenwriters, Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump") and writing duo Stephen J. Rivele...
Mann is a filmmaker fond of shaky, handheld camera moves, was an early proponent of digital photography, and seeks a certain kind of steely, assertive realism in his work. This was an exhilarating approach for a high-profile Hollywood biography like "Ali," a film that was nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards.
It's worth noting that Mann and his three credited "Ali" co-screenwriters, Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump") and writing duo Stephen J. Rivele...
- 5/3/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Richard Roundtree’s two-fisted detective tale burst on the scene announcing that a craze called Blaxploitation was on the way. No matter that the movie is somewhat slow and drab — John Shaft was the identification figure denied black audiences for 60 years, a hero who takes no guff from nobody and consistently tells The Man where to head in. Even bigger was the music theme by Isaac Hayes, which transforms Shaft’s casual stroll through Times Square into an iconic image of the 1970s. Criterion’s presentation of Gordon Parks’ smash hit has the original feature in 4K Uhd and in Blu-ray with the first sequel Shaft’s Big Score! in Blu-ray only.
Shaft
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1130
1971 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date June 21, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Victor Arnold, Sherri Brewer,...
Shaft
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1130
1971 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date June 21, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Victor Arnold, Sherri Brewer,...
- 6/18/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Shaft’s Big Score! / Shaft in Africa
Blu ray
Warner Archive
1972, 1973 / 2.35 : 1 / 104, 112 Min.
Starring Richard Roundtree, Vonetta McGee, Frank Finley
Directed by Gordon Parks, John Guillermin
Released in 1971 during a notoriously divisive presidential campaign, Shaft was both a middle finger to the powers that be and a sexually charged Black Power taunt – a combination that convulsed 42nd Street audiences while scaring the bejesus out of your average Nixon voter.
For that grindhouse crowd, Richard Roundtree, not Nixon, was The One and his portrayal of the street-smart detective reached far beyond The Deuce – director Gordon Parks’ film cost only $500,000 but brought in 13 million at the box office. Sequels were just around the corner.
A year later Shaft’s Big Score! reunited Parks, Roundtree and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman while quadrupling the budget in the bargain – the streets are still mean but the volatile mood swings that made the 1971 film a cultural touchstone...
Blu ray
Warner Archive
1972, 1973 / 2.35 : 1 / 104, 112 Min.
Starring Richard Roundtree, Vonetta McGee, Frank Finley
Directed by Gordon Parks, John Guillermin
Released in 1971 during a notoriously divisive presidential campaign, Shaft was both a middle finger to the powers that be and a sexually charged Black Power taunt – a combination that convulsed 42nd Street audiences while scaring the bejesus out of your average Nixon voter.
For that grindhouse crowd, Richard Roundtree, not Nixon, was The One and his portrayal of the street-smart detective reached far beyond The Deuce – director Gordon Parks’ film cost only $500,000 but brought in 13 million at the box office. Sequels were just around the corner.
A year later Shaft’s Big Score! reunited Parks, Roundtree and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman while quadrupling the budget in the bargain – the streets are still mean but the volatile mood swings that made the 1971 film a cultural touchstone...
- 5/28/2019
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Jamie Foxx is wearing his sorrow over Muhammad Ali's death on his sleeve. While out in West Hollywood on Friday night, the actor sported several articles of clothing emblazoned with the late boxing champ's name. Foxx wore a red T-shirt with "Muhammad Ali" and "people's champ" printed on the front and a blue bomber-style jacket with "Cassius Clay," the boxer's birth name, and "Louisville, Ky," his hometown, across the back. Foxx has paid tribute to Ali in the past, playing his assistant trainer and cornerman Drew Bundini Brown in the 2001 biographical film Ali. Several other stars have expressed their...
- 6/4/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
Jamie Foxx is wearing his sorrow over Muhammad Ali's death on his sleeve. While out in West Hollywood on Friday night, the actor sported several articles of clothing emblazoned with the late boxing champ's name. Foxx wore a red T-shirt with "Muhammad Ali" and "people's champ" printed on the front and a blue bomber-style jacket with "Cassius Clay," the boxer's birth name, and "Louisville, Ky," his hometown, across the back. Foxx has paid tribute to Ali in the past, playing his assistant trainer and cornerman Drew Bundini Brown in the 2001 biographical film Ali. Several other stars have expressed their...
- 6/4/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
Jamie Foxx paid his respects to Muhammad Ali ... and his tribute fit to a t. Jamie was leaving The Villas in WeHo Friday night when he displayed an Ali t-shirt and a Cassius Clay jacket. Foxx play Drew Bundini Brown, Ali's cornerman, in the movie, "Ali." Read more...
- 6/4/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Another Huuuge boxing role for Jamie Foxx -- 'cause he's just been tapped to sing the national anthem at the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight! Our sources confirm ... Foxx -- who's starring as Mike Tyson in an upcoming biopic -- was recently approached about belting out the "Star-Spangled Banner" ... and jumped at the chance! Foxx is a Major boxing fan -- and famously starred as Muhammad Ali's right-hand man Drew Bundini Brown in "Ali." This...
- 4/27/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Jamie Foxx will likely weigh in as Mike Tyson in an upcoming biopic about the legendary, notorious boxer, Variety reports. The as-yet-untitled film is being written by Terence Winter, who penned The Wolf of Wall Street and regularly contributed screenplays to The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire.
7 Knockout Mike Tyson Cameos
While Foxx's role has yet to be officially confirmed, sources told the industry rag the actor is currently attached to play Tyson, and his manager, Rick Yorn, is producing the project. With other elements still coming together as well — the...
7 Knockout Mike Tyson Cameos
While Foxx's role has yet to be officially confirmed, sources told the industry rag the actor is currently attached to play Tyson, and his manager, Rick Yorn, is producing the project. With other elements still coming together as well — the...
- 7/31/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Jamie Foxx will likely weigh in as Mike Tyson in an upcoming biopic about the legendary, notorious boxer, Variety reports. The as-yet-untitled film is being written by Terence Winter, who penned The Wolf of Wall Street and regularly contributed screenplays to The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire.
7 Knockout Mike Tyson Cameos
While Foxx's role has yet to be officially confirmed, sources told the industry rag the actor is currently attached to play Tyson, and his manager, Rick Yorn, is producing the project. With other elements still coming together as well — the...
7 Knockout Mike Tyson Cameos
While Foxx's role has yet to be officially confirmed, sources told the industry rag the actor is currently attached to play Tyson, and his manager, Rick Yorn, is producing the project. With other elements still coming together as well — the...
- 7/31/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Jamie Foxx is stepping back into the ring, this time to play one of the most notorious boxers of all time.
Variety reports that Foxx is in talks to play Mike Tyson in an untitled biopic to be written by Terence Winter ("Wolf of Wall Street," "Boardwalk Empire").
Tyson himself told the U.K.'s Mirror, "Me and Jamie Foxx are in discussion, and we gonna do it. Within a year to 18 months, we're going to do the Mike Tyson story and he's going to portray me, and now they have this new animation; because you know Jamie's pretty much my age so he can't portray me but they have this new system."
Tyson also indicated Martin Scorsese may be involved.
Winter has plenty of material to mine from. He could start with Tyson's troubled childhood (deadbeat dad, mother who died when he was 16) or when he started working with his first mentor,...
Variety reports that Foxx is in talks to play Mike Tyson in an untitled biopic to be written by Terence Winter ("Wolf of Wall Street," "Boardwalk Empire").
Tyson himself told the U.K.'s Mirror, "Me and Jamie Foxx are in discussion, and we gonna do it. Within a year to 18 months, we're going to do the Mike Tyson story and he's going to portray me, and now they have this new animation; because you know Jamie's pretty much my age so he can't portray me but they have this new system."
Tyson also indicated Martin Scorsese may be involved.
Winter has plenty of material to mine from. He could start with Tyson's troubled childhood (deadbeat dad, mother who died when he was 16) or when he started working with his first mentor,...
- 7/30/2014
- by Kelly Woo
- Moviefone
Though there have been numerous documentaries about former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson, Hollywood has yet to produce a straight-up biopic about the popular sports figure. However, if recent comments from the man himself are to be believed, that’s about to change.
Speaking with the Daily Mirror, Tyson revealed that Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx is in line to play him in a biopic:
“Me and Jamie Foxx are in discussion, and we gonna do it. Within a year to 18 months, we’re going to do the Mike Tyson story and he’s going to portray me.”
Tyson noted that Martin Scorsese is also involved, though it seems unlikely that the Goodfellas helmer would be stepping behind the camera for this project. And for those concerned about Foxx, 46, portraying Tyson in his glory days (he became the youngest heavyweight champion at the age of 20), the boxer explained that the...
Speaking with the Daily Mirror, Tyson revealed that Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx is in line to play him in a biopic:
“Me and Jamie Foxx are in discussion, and we gonna do it. Within a year to 18 months, we’re going to do the Mike Tyson story and he’s going to portray me.”
Tyson noted that Martin Scorsese is also involved, though it seems unlikely that the Goodfellas helmer would be stepping behind the camera for this project. And for those concerned about Foxx, 46, portraying Tyson in his glory days (he became the youngest heavyweight champion at the age of 20), the boxer explained that the...
- 7/30/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Mykelti Williamson is set to get stuck into the role of DON KING in the forthcoming Muhammed Ali biopic, Ali (2001). Williamson, who played Bubba in Forrest Gump (1994), is in final negotiations to star with another Hollywood heavyweight, Will Smith, in the cinematic biography. Jamie Foxx and Mario Van Peebles have already won the roles of Drew Bundini Brown and Malcolm X while the parts of George Foreman and Joe Frazier are still uncast.
- 12/5/2000
- WENN
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