Jamie Foxx has been talking up the possibility of a Mike Tyson biopic for a few years now, a project that would find him playing the former heavyweight champ throughout the various stages of his life and career using performance capture technology. The movie has seemingly been in development since 2008 (if not earlier), but it wasn’t officially announced until last year when we heard that The Sopranos writer Terence Winter would be penning the script and Martin Scorsese might also be coming on board as an executive producer. Now this month Jamie Foxx is saying that Scorsese will be doing more than just producing… in fact, he might be getting behind the camera himself. During a recent interview on Power 105’s The Breakfast Club, Jamie Foxx had this to say:

“I just went in with Paramount with Mike Tyson. So I’m going to do the Mike Tyson story. Listen, to be in the same room pitching Mike Tyson to Paramount, Mike Tyson is on one side, I’m on the other side and doing Mike Tyson at the same time. And Martin Scorsese at the helm. This will be the first boxing movie that Martin Scorsese has done since Raging Bull.”

If this is true, it would certainly add a lot of credibility to the project and increase the chances that it might actually get made in the near future. On the other hand, Jamie Foxx likes to talk a big game and Martin Scorsese has plenty of other stuff on his plate including Silence, his 1970s rock and roll HBO TV drama, and his long-gestating Sinatra biopic. Would you be excited to see Scorsese direct another boxing movie, this time about Iron Mike Tyson?