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oliverfennell wrote:... which hasn't been done already?

I say George Foreman.

It could start with his loss to Ali, with the middle portion being human-interest, and the third act being his comeback, with key fights (the first one, the one against Cooney which turned him from a curiosity to a contender again, Holyfield). The finale would, of course, be the Hollywoodesque Moorer win. Anything after that is superfluous to the narrative.

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oliverfennell wrote:... which hasn't been done already?

I say George Foreman.

It could start with his loss to Ali, with the middle portion being human-interest, and the third act being his comeback, with key fights (the first one, the one against Cooney which turned him from a curiosity to a contender again, Holyfield). The finale would, of course, be the Hollywoodesque Moorer win. Anything after that is superfluous to the narrative.

I've been saying it for years. He's so marketable, recognisable, & the story is simply an astonishing one.

It's surprising & unfortunate it has not received any attempts.

sg1985 wrote:Hollywood could stress an inspirational film out of Hopkins, life on the streets, prison, early loss, winning the middleweight title. Wouldn't be the best but it's the kind of stuff Hollywood loves.

turn2stone wrote:stanley ketchel. the story would contain all sorts of high drama both in and out of the ring.

Rachael Horovitz, the producer who originally set up the Michael Lewis book Moneyball at Columbia about overachieving Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, has found a new sports figure to hang a picture on. Horovitz has teamed with Recount screenwriter Danny Strong to option the Wil Haygood biography Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. Haygood will write the screenplay. He met Strong on The Butler, the Sony Pictures Entertainment film that has Lee Daniels attached to direct and Laura Ziskin to produce a film about Eugene Allen, who observed the civil rights struggle as an eight-term White House butler and was brought back after retirement to see Barack Obama inaugurated as the first African American president. Strong wrote that script, based on a series of articles that Haygood’ wrote for the Washington Post.

tzyuforever wrote:Supposedly a Ray Robinson bio-pic is in the works

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/sugar-r ... on-biopic/

Rachael Horovitz, the producer who originally set up the Michael Lewis book Moneyball at Columbia about overachieving Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, has found a new sports figure to hang a picture on. Horovitz has teamed with Recount screenwriter Danny Strong to option the Wil Haygood biography Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. Haygood will write the screenplay. He met Strong on The Butler, the Sony Pictures Entertainment film that has Lee Daniels attached to direct and Laura Ziskin to produce a film about Eugene Allen, who observed the civil rights struggle as an eight-term White House butler and was brought back after retirement to see Barack Obama inaugurated as the first African American president. Strong wrote that script, based on a series of articles that Haygood’ wrote for the Washington Post.

southpaw90 wrote:a big budget hollywood blockbuster about mike tyson it would b a smash just like ali was.

ben geoghegan wrote:Do we really need another Mike Tyson movie. There's so many stories to tell in boxing history.

turn2stone wrote:stanley ketchel. the story would contain all sorts of high drama both in and out of the ring.

oliverfennell wrote:... which hasn't been done already?

I say George Foreman.

It could start with his loss to Ali, with the middle portion being human-interest, and the third act being his comeback, with key fights (the first one, the one against Cooney which turned him from a curiosity to a contender again, Holyfield). The finale would, of course, be the Hollywoodesque Moorer win. Anything after that is superfluous to the narrative.