Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson believes award-winning actor Jamie Foxx will do a very good job on the planned motion picture based on Tyson's life.

Foxx, now 52-years-old, would star in a biopic as the youngest man to capture a heavyweight title. The project has had numerous delays and other issues that continued to put the film on the shelf.

During a recent interview with filmmaker Mark Birnbaum over Instagram Live, Foxx revealed the Tyson film is coming together.

"It's a definitive yes," Foxx said. "Doing biographies is a tough thing. Sometimes it takes 20 years to get them done, but we officially got the real ball rolling.

"I met Mike Tyson in the weirdest way, I was on stage doing stand-up years ago [when I was 22]. I get to my Mike Tyson joke and nobody claps, nobody laughs. You know why? Because Mike Tyson was watching.

"So I started hanging out with Mike Tyson so I got to see Mike in two different ways, two different lives. I saw him at the height of his career and then when things got bad, things got bumpy, I also saw him as well, so what I'm excited about the movie is to show those moments of the different Mike."

To physically prepare for the role, Foxx is currently doing 60 pull-ups, 60 dips and 100 push-ups every other day.

"I guarantee you, people will run up on me in the street and ask for an autograph and think that I'm Mike," Foxx said.

Tyson expects Foxx to put in a masterful performance on the big screen.

He plans to tell Foxx 'the truth' about what happened during his life and career.

“He’s going to do a great job, I know that,” Tyson told Charlie Mack. “He’s going to do an awesome job, as Mike Tyson would say.

“Yeah, I’m very grateful. I’m very excited about it. I’m going to sit down and tell him the truth and he’s going to have to learn how to process that. It’s not going to be pretty and stuff.”