According to Variety, Jamie Foxx is going to play Mike Tyson in a “biographical limited series” about the boxer with Antoine Fuqua directing and Martin Scorsese apparently on board as executive producer. As prestigious as it may sound, the Tyson project itself also counts among its executive producers, provoking certain assumptions about what the tone of this thing might ultimately be (or even what kind of content it might cover). The Variety The story says it ‘will extend Tyson’s entire life’, but it’s unclear if that includes Tyson’s abuse or the rape conviction in the early ’90s. It would be almost difficult not to name it, but with Tyson executive producer and a famous, beloved actor playing him … it’s hard to predict how it’s going to end up.
There are no networks or streamers involved yet, and the launch will be written by Colin Peterson. Variety also points out that this is the second Mike Tyson project announced last month, with the other –A Hulu limited series that do not Tyson’s involvement has– is pronounced by the boxer as “inappropriate” and “tone deaf”. The Hulu One, titled Iron Mike, come from Ek, TonyaSteven Rogers, Craig Gillespie and Margot Robbie, with Rogers writing, Gillespie directing and producing Robbie.