Jamie Foxx is set to star in a biographical television series centered on the life of Mike Tyson, Fox News has confirmed. The limited series, titled "Tyson," is said to be executive produced by the boxing legend himself as well as Foxx, Antoine Fuqua and Martin Scorsese.
The project has been many years in the making. It was initially announced as a feature film in 2014 and was set to see the Oscar-winner play Tyson with Terence Winter writing the script.
Now, screenwriting duties will be handled by Colin Preston, who has already written the pilot and is in the process of writing the full script. "I have been looking to tell my story for quite some time," Tyson, 54, said in a statement.
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