Status: Development Unknown (Script as of 1/17/17)
Release Date: TBA
Genre: Drama/Biography
Rating: Not Available
Studio: Specialty Films
Director: Not Available
Cast: David Oyelowo, Danny Strong
Details: Deadline reports that David Oyelowo is ready to play iconic boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in a biopic based on the Wil Haygood biography Sweet Thunder: The Life And Times Of Sugar Ray Robinson. Moneyball producer Rachael Horovitz and Game Change scribe Danny Strong will produce, and Oyelowo will be executive producer.
According to Black Actors, the film will focus on Robinson’s early career and possibly the organized crime circles that controlled the boxing industry in the 1940s and 1950s. (Source(s): Deadline; Black Actors).
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