Boxer you think needs a good movie?

Emile Griffith, Manny Pacquiao, Aaron Pryor, Kassim Ouma, Freddie Pendleton, George Foreman.

 

Raging Bull killed it, you`re not goig to get another DeNiro or a Scorsese plus the source material and era were perfect.

 

The english speaking scenes with Manny would not be interesting and who the hell could play a flipino?

 

Who could play him?

 

There has to be at least one English speaking Filipino who could play Manny.

If not, Kevin "6 degrees of separation" Bacon or Samuel "what movie didn't I appear in?" Jackson could probably do it.

 

Archie Moore NEEDS a Netflix documentary
Start with his time in juvenile justice system
To working during the depression out west being a lumberjack. To traveling the world like a hobo going town to town wanting to fight their best to make a name for himself. His getting paid zero dollars when he finally recieved a title shot in Argentina. To his shot against Marciano which he pushed for. Then loss to Patterson then career hanging in the balance against Durelle. Acting career. Then the after life of ABC charity and training Ali then Foreman.

 

Darren Barker all day long. Brother died in an accident, crippling hip injury, stopping a fight on a night out to then get assaulted, and then gained a world championship, even the way he won the world title was screen worthy.

Good fighter and more importantly good bloke.

On the other hand I wouldn’t mind seeing an Aaron Prior or Ken Buchanan film, for totally different reasons.

 

Emile Griffith and Dick Tiger. Also The Hurricane could do with some serious improvements.

 

Frankie Duarte and Matthew Saad Muhammad would be my go to picks.

 

James Earl Jones basically already did.

 

Stallone obtained the rights to a Jack Johnson film at the time Trump pardoned him posthumously for the unjust charge he did a year in Leavenworth for. I think his life is too crammed for a regular film. It would require a long form 10 parter, Netflix are good at.
Meanwhile, watch Ken Burns 3 hour outstanding documentary, “Unforgivable Blackness.”
How about Stanley Ketchel, an amazing subject, for an eventful, compact tale of a mad abbreviated life!

 

Critic Vincent Canby referred to the film as "One of those liberal, well-meaning, fervently uncontroversial works that pretend to tackle contemporary problems by finding analogies at a safe remove in history". Critic Emanuel Levy wrote "The movie is too theatrical and every idea is spelled out for the audience."

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 43% based on reviews from 7 critics. On Metacritic the film has a score of 53% based on reviews from 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Box Office
According to Fox records, the film required $16,075,000 in rentals to break even. By December 11, 1970, it had earned $9,325,000 in rentals, thus the studio made a loss on the film.