Scorcese/Jamie Foxx to team up on MIKE TYSON biopic.

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Per Jamie Foxx himself...

Martin Scorsese to Direct Jamie Foxx in Mike Tyson biopic.

Jamie Foxx went on Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club morning show today, and dropped a most unexpected bombshell: Martin Scorsese will direct him in the long-gestating Mike Tyson biopic.

This is surprising because Scorsese has a number of films in development, and it was thought that he would move on to SINATRA after he finished his currently-shooting passion project, SILENCE (expected to be released in 2016). But it sounds like Foxx's Tyson film is set up and ready to go at Paramount, so this will likely be Scorsese's next movie - and, most intriguingly, his first boxing flick since RAGING BULL. With Terence Winter (BOARDWALK EMPIRE and WOLF OF WALL STREET) writing the script, perhaps we should've seen this coming; personally, I was hoping Foxx would get Spike Lee onboard, but maybe he didn't want to tempt fate after the failure of Spike's Tyson show for HBO.

As for how the forty-seven-year-old intends to depict the life story of the forty-eight-year-old former heavyweight champion, your guess is as good as mine. But with Scorsese attached, I can't wait to find out.

Here's the radio interview.

Not sure how this would work, seeing as they noted Foxx's age Now, & Tyson was TYSON when he was what, barely 21 or so?