Anthony Hopkins to star as Mike Tyson’s trainer in drama Cus And Mike
Could be good this 😎
Anthony Hopkins is set to bring his Oscar-and-Emmy-winning repertory skill set to the boxing ring… well, a ring-adjacent location, anyway, set to play trainer Cus D’Amato, in a developing fact-based film project about how the legendary prepper of pugilists molded one fighter in particular, Mike Tyson.
The launch of Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) has yielded a most intriguing project from Patriot Pictures, a biopic titled Cus And Mike, which, as revealed by Deadline, will have Hopkins headline as the titular trainer. The film is set with The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, who will work off an original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, based on Montieth Illingworth’s 1991 biography, Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, And Betrayal.
Knighted Welsh legend Hopkins’s role as D’Amato – who wrought two-time heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and former Olympic Silver medalist and junior middleweight champion, José Torres – will depict the paternal relationship between the elderly trainer and a teenage Tyson during the early 1980s, commencing a tutelage that will first lead the lad to two Junior Olympic gold medals in 1984 and, not long afterward, becoming the youngest Heavyweight Champion in boxing history at the age of 20 in November 1986. However, the latter accolade was one that D’Amato wouldn't get to enjoy, since he passed away in 1985 at the age of 77. The trainer was played by another Oscar-winning legend, George C. Scott, opposite Michael Jai White’s Mike, in HBO’s 1995 biopic, Tyson. Interestingly enough, Bruce Willis was recently attached to play D’Amato in another Tyson project titled Cornerman.
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Could be good this 😎
Anthony Hopkins is set to bring his Oscar-and-Emmy-winning repertory skill set to the boxing ring… well, a ring-adjacent location, anyway, set to play trainer Cus D’Amato, in a developing fact-based film project about how the legendary prepper of pugilists molded one fighter in particular, Mike Tyson.
The launch of Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) has yielded a most intriguing project from Patriot Pictures, a biopic titled Cus And Mike, which, as revealed by Deadline, will have Hopkins headline as the titular trainer. The film is set with The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, who will work off an original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, based on Montieth Illingworth’s 1991 biography, Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, And Betrayal.
Knighted Welsh legend Hopkins’s role as D’Amato – who wrought two-time heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and former Olympic Silver medalist and junior middleweight champion, José Torres – will depict the paternal relationship between the elderly trainer and a teenage Tyson during the early 1980s, commencing a tutelage that will first lead the lad to two Junior Olympic gold medals in 1984 and, not long afterward, becoming the youngest Heavyweight Champion in boxing history at the age of 20 in November 1986. However, the latter accolade was one that D’Amato wouldn't get to enjoy, since he passed away in 1985 at the age of 77. The trainer was played by another Oscar-winning legend, George C. Scott, opposite Michael Jai White’s Mike, in HBO’s 1995 biopic, Tyson. Interestingly enough, Bruce Willis was recently attached to play D’Amato in another Tyson project titled Cornerman.
https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/...a-cus-and-mike
Fantastic casting. Hopkins gives the role real gravitas. You're talking about real heavyweight, well respected actor in Anthony Hopkins.
But please don't let Jamie Foxx play Mike Tyson. Don't do it. He's too old. When were talking about Tyson you're talking about youth. It'd be crazy for 51 year old man to portray Tyson. I hope they go the NWA film route and choose unknown actors
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Anthony Hopkins is set to bring his Oscar-and-Emmy-winning repertory skill set to the boxing ring… well, a ring-adjacent location, anyway, set to play trainer Cus D’Amato, in a developing fact-based film project about how the legendary prepper of pugilists molded one fighter in particular, Mike Tyson.
The launch of Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) has yielded a most intriguing project from Patriot Pictures, a biopic titled Cus And Mike, which, as revealed by Deadline, will have Hopkins headline as the titular trainer. The film is set with The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, who will work off an original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, based on Montieth Illingworth’s 1991 biography, Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, And Betrayal.
Knighted Welsh legend Hopkins’s role as D’Amato – who wrought two-time heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and former Olympic Silver medalist and junior middleweight champion, José Torres – will depict the paternal relationship between the elderly trainer and a teenage Tyson during the early 1980s, commencing a tutelage that will first lead the lad to two Junior Olympic gold medals in 1984 and, not long afterward, becoming the youngest Heavyweight Champion in boxing history at the age of 20 in November 1986. However, the latter accolade was one that D’Amato wouldn't get to enjoy, since he passed away in 1985 at the age of 77. The trainer was played by another Oscar-winning legend, George C. Scott, opposite Michael Jai White’s Mike, in HBO’s 1995 biopic, Tyson. Interestingly enough, Bruce Willis was recently attached to play D’Amato in another Tyson project titled Cornerman.
https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/...a-cus-and-mike
Fantastic casting. Hopkins gives the role real gravitas. You're talking about real heavyweight, well respected actor in Anthony Hopkins.
But please don't let Jamie Foxx play Mike Tyson. Don't do it. He's too old. When were talking about Tyson you're talking about youth. It'd be crazy for 51 year old man to portray Tyson. I hope they go the NWA film route and choose unknown actors
They could get Ice Cube's son, O'Shea Jackson Jr to play Tyson.
He's a decent actor & he's got the physical stature to play Tyson too; not too tall & very stocky.
