In accordance with Variety, Jamie Foxx will play Mike Tyson in a “limited biographical series” about the boxer with Antoine Fuqua directing and apparently Martin Scorsese as executive producer. However, so favorable to prestige sounds, the project also has Tyson himself among its executive producers, which invites us to assume certain what tones it may end up having (or even what kind of content it may include). He Variety the story says it will “cover Tyson’s entire life,” but it’s unclear whether this includes allegations of abuse that have been raised against Tyson or his conviction for rape in the early 1990s. no to mention it, but with Tyson’s executive production and a famous and beloved actor playing him … it’s hard to predict how he’ll get there.
There are no networks or streamers involved yet, and the pilot will be written by Colin Peterson. Variety also points out that this is Mike Tyson’s second project that was announced last month, with the other …a limited series of Hulu that it doesn’t they have Tyson’s involvement—Have been denounced by the boxer as “inappropriate” and “deaf.” The one from Hulu, titled Iron Mike, ve de Jo, TonyaSteven Rogers, Craig Gillespie and Margot Robbie, with Rogers writing, directing Gillespie and producing Robbie.