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James Toback to direct Mike Tyson bio-pic

James Toback, who’s had a lengthy career in Hollywood including creating the TV series “Welcome Back Kotter’ and writing the script for “Bugsy”, is reportedly going to direct a bio-pic film about Mike Tyson according to Daily Variety.

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UPDATE: The Toback/Tyson project will be a documentary. Here’s a blurb from Variety:

Director James Toback is in the ring with former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on a feature documentary that traces how the fighter self-destructed and let a fortune and his ring legacy slip away.

Toback will prepare “Tyson” using more than 30 hours of recently completed interviews with the ex-champ. The director said his subject pulls no punches in chronicling every aspect of his rise and fall.

Damon Bingham, Harlan Werner, Tyson and Toback are producing. The film will be finished in the fall, and ICM will sell worldwide rights.

Nice of Toback to give Iron Mike a producer’s credit.

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