Sugar Ray Leonard is latest boxer to get biopic

Sugar Ray the latest boxer to get 'this is your life' film treatment.

by Matt Holmes
Rocky series, then the biopics Raging Bull, Ali and Cinderella Man which have all been successful works of cinema in their own way. We already know that 'Irish' Micky Ward is to get a biopic soon from Darren Aronofsky in The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg and Brad Pitt but now comes word from Variety of a boxing biopic of someone a little more famous, the great Sugar Ray Leonard...
Leonard was one of the leading boxers of the 1970s and early '80s, winning several WBC and WBA championships and a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. He's one of only two boxers to have been world champion in five different weight classes.
Actor/Producer Kevin Pollak's shingle Red Bird Cinema and the script from Friday Night Lights scribe H.G. Bissinger convinced Leonard that they were the right people to bring his story to the big screen as the boxer has turned down several offers before for a film adaptation. Production is set to begin next year and just who could play Sugar Ray? Anyone else thinking Jamie Foxx might nab this part?

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.