Boxers' Biographies that would make for a great movie?

I thikn he's currently doin a Mike Tyson movie

 

There was a French version on-line but I don't speak French.
I might have to get it from Netflix if they have it.

 

sheet son...i've been watching this sport since the early 80's.

 

Not sure they ever had a true script for it. Just talk. But I could be wrong. Have to check into again to see if anything was made of it.

He would be better as Jack Johnson. I can't see him playing Tyson. From a Build stand-point, not the same. Athletic stand-point, not the same. Intimidation stand-point, not the same...even if he can act.

Now Jack Johnson, build is similar. Athletic ability doesn't have to be crazy good like Tyson because of the era and how they fought. And personality, is closer to Jack Johnson since Johnson could be a badass but also wear that smile as a F-U. Jamie could pull that off better. Drama and Comedy.

The Great part of a Johnson movie is about, and I'll use the title to this article from ESPN....

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http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014275.html





"Jack Johnson wished to live his life nothing short of a free man," says Burns. "And that was a dangerous choice for an African-American in the first two decades of the 20th century."

"This is the story of an incredible athlete, but it's also a story about freedom and courage," says Burns. "Every time he got in the ring he could have been killed, but he kept boxing. If he hadn't taken white lovers, the boxing community would have continued to send great white hopes up against him until he retired."

"He wouldn't let anybody define him; he was a self-defined man," says James Earl Jones in Unforgivable Blackness. "And this issue of him being black was not that relevant to him, but the issue of his being free was very relevant."

"A black person in the spotlight needed to uplift the race, but Johnson told people that he wasn't into the uplift business or liberating his race; he just wanted to live his life," says Early. "Jack Johnson was really the first black pop culture star, because his sex life was a real object of interest for people."

While Burns' film, and the possibility for a presidential pardon, will help restore Johnson's legacy and his rightful place in history,

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was very clear on how he wanted to be remembered. "Whatever you write about me," he told a young reporter sometime before he died in an automobile accident in 1948,

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http://www.documentary.org/content/boxing-while-black-ken-burns-chronicles-jack-johnsons-bout-racism


So there is a lot more depth with Johnson. Depth that can still translate to many aspects of life and in today's era.

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Louis
Dempsey
Pac
Hopkins

 

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valero

mayorga

 

sonny liston

 

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teenaged world champion, who didn't take the easy route, beat an atg as a teen in front of his high school graduating class to win a world title, had some of the most memorable bouts of the 80's. lived a life of excess outside of the ring and ended up broke and braindead. the ultimate bittersweet warrior story.

 

Maybe Tapia and good work on the correct use of a plural possessive apostrophe in the title. Makes a change from the usual level of ******ation around here.

 

Sam Langford
Carlos Monzon
Stanley Ketchel

 

Fabulous shout.:yep
If we're talking about books I've actually read,Johnny T's is made for a biopic,but I fear it would be some low-budget Lifetime TV **** or something.

Arguello's recent bio by the guy who did Manos de Piedra has all the ingredients for a three hour classic.Being blackballed by the Sandinistas,losing his brother in the conflict,the great career followed by the Pryor debacle,the fall from grace followed by his return to Nicaragua,only to work with the Sandinistas and the mystery surrounding his tragic death.
Could clean up at the Oscars.