boxing movies that should be made

[rightsideup]

waiting for hands of stone to come out
also i read somewhere Eddie Murphy had the rights to sugar ray robinsons life story.
any others on the horizon or should be made

[Sugar Adam Ali]

The life story of bernard Hopkins...


From prison, to club fighter, to paper champ, to undisputed, to being written off, to light heavy championship, to being written off, to oldest guy ever to win a belt..


In all honesty, my brother works in Hollywood on film crews and does a lot of documentry work with directors, and has pitched them the hopkins life story idea. He says they are intrigued and hope to get them to commit once the next slate of projects are complete..

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Life stories that would be great films

Obviously ali, but that's already been done...

My personal choices would be
Tyson
Hopkins
Toney
Camacho
Golata
Lennox
Monzon
Jack johnson


Those guys have wildly dramatic careers and would make great stories

[rightsideup]

there was the hbo movie on Tyson which i enjoyed childhood thru **** conviction

[Zaroku]

I would like Clint Eastwood to make a movie about joe Lewis and his war service.
How he was an American Hero, who got mistreated because of his great heroism, in the face of racism. He donated money to the war effort, and died broke because of a tax burden!

How Sinatra had to use his Vegas connections to get Louis a job as a greeter at hotels so Joe could have a job.


How about a movie about Joe Frazier, his life & career, in a racially fractured America, who lent Ali money..... Then Ali talked crap about him, yet never paid him back. Ending with Bernard Hopkins getting people to put up a statue for Joe. But there was a statue for Rocky, a non existent fighter. Bullcrap

[Scott9945]

Arturo Gatti seems like an ideal subject for a movie. Exciting career, controversial death...

[Eff Pandas]

The Gatti story is for sure going to be told sooner or later. I bet someone is writing a Gatti book right now that'll get made into a movie.

I'd love to see a Diego Corrales movie. A real good doc about him I'd dig too.

I think a straight dramatic film about Gerald McClellan (with Anthony Mackie as McClellan) or Magomed or Randie Carver or Levander Johnson or one of any number of guys who've gotten killed or severely injured in the ring could be a good story to I think. Hell that might be some Oscar worthy ****.

[The Old LefHook]

Most boxing movies are not that good. I have seen most biopics of the greats that have been made. Ali, Louis and Johnson have the most compelling stories for integrating a lot of history. I saw the Will Smith thing about Ali and it was horrible, I thought.

I have seen very few boxing movies that can stand up to Hard Times with Charles Bronson for good action. A big problem with biopics is you already know the full storyline.

Sam Langford would be a nice one to see. I want them to use my Langford story as a template.

[Scott9945]

Most boxing movies are not that good. I have seen most biopics of the greats that have been made. Ali, Louis and Johnson have the most compelling stories for integrating a lot of history. I saw the Will Smith thing about Ali and it was horrible, I thought.

I have seen very few boxing movies that can stand up to Hard Times with Charles Bronson for good action. A big problem with biopics is you already know the full storyline.

Sam Langford would be a nice one to see. I want them to use my Langford story as a template.

Totally agree about that awful Ali movie, and about "Hard Times" as well.

[Anthony342]

Even if you know the storyline, it's could still be intriguing if the story is told well. I believe there was a Ray Mancini TV movie years ago that wasn't too bad. There have been two so so Marciano movies so far.

Hard Times I'll have to check out. I really liked Somebody Up There Like Me, with Paul Newman and Raging Bull, when it comes to biopics. How accurate is the Newman movie and is the Treat Williams Dempsey movie any good?