Comments Thread For: Jamie Foxx Preparing To Play Mike Tyson in New Motion Picture

[future hendrixx]

jamie was born for this role. hes been making tyson impressions for nearly 20 years.

[PunchyPotorff]

Should've gotten Keenen Ivory Wayans to do the role. He did a great Tyson on In Living Color, a Dating Game sketch. Great stuff, and he flat out nailed it. Foxx is only getting the role because he's one of the more popular African American actors out there.

But hey, they've never made a good Jimi Hendrix biopic yet, and likely never will. Nothing new to pumping out yet another bio film that will likely be worlds away from nailing it.

[Butt stuff]

Man I hope Jamie Foxx pulls it off because of his recent comedy movies I still see him as mother****a Jones from horrible bosses.

mother****a jones was the best thing about those movies

[Butt stuff]

Should give that guy from Star Wars a chance, he packs on a bit more muscle.

Great shout, he's a decent actor in both Star Wars and Detroit.

[khizon]

Whaaat?? Should have been the Rock wtf.

[iamboxing]

Did anyone see Django Unchained? Great movie, but Jamie's performance was lackluster. They were originally going to have Will Smith play Django, but he pulled out. Jamie isn't that good enough of an actor to portray a complex and troubled Mike IMHO. There's plenty of black talent out there to play Mike. How about John Boyega, he's a brilliant actor:

[iamboxing]

He looks more like Tyson than any actor. Plus he's English so you know he's a consummate actor with good vocal range and will have Mike's voice down to a T.

[iamboxing]

Great shout, he's a decent actor in both Star Wars and Detroit.

He was great

[iamboxing]

Should give that guy from Star Wars a chance, he packs on a bit more muscle.

Absolutely, looks like Tyson too

[MDPopescu]

Did anyone see Django Unchained? Great movie, but Jamie's performance was lackluster. They were originally going to have Will Smith play Django, but he pulled out. Jamie isn't that good enough of an actor to portray a complex and troubled Mike IMHO. There's plenty of black talent out there to play Mike. How about John Boyega, he's a brilliant actor:

He looks more like Tyson than any actor. Plus he's English so you know he's a consummate actor with good vocal range and will have Mike's voice down to a T.

... you make some good points... but...