Mike Tyson Biopic Set at Hulu, With Trevante Rhodes Attached to Star
It looks like Trevante Rhodes has been hired to play Mike Tyson in the upcoming biopic set at Hulu, titled Iron Mike.
Deadline reported on Thursday that the Moonlight star will get in the ring later this year when production gears up to start. Iron Mike will be an eight-part series written by Steven Rogers (I, Tonya) and directed by Craig Gillespie. Karin Gist will be the showrunner and executive producer, a title that will also be held by Margot Robbie herself. The show will explore the life of the former world champion, Mike Tyson, and it looks like it will dive into its controversies too. According to Deadline:
Hulu is pulling no punches with the series and refuses to be knocked out even though the boxer accused the Disney-owned network of “cultural misappropriation” and said it was “tone deaf” to announce particularly during Black History Month.
This is totally separate from a biopic series that Tyson himself announced earlier this year, starring Jamie Foxx and being directed and executive produced by Antoine Fuqua, as well as executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
Trevante Rhodes’ most notable role to this day is the adult version of Chiron in the 2016 Best Picture Winner Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins. He recently appeared in another project from Hulu that got the Oscar’s attention, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, and before that, he had a secondary role in Shane Black’s The Predator.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
