Hulu has found its Mike Tyson.Moonlight star Trevante Rhodes will play the controversial world champion boxer in eight-part series Iron Mike.
He will pull the gloves on and get in the ring later this year when production starts. Rhodes, who played adult Chiron in the Academy Award-winning feature film, has also starred in Netflix’s Birdbox and Hulu’s The United States Vs.
Billie Holiday. The series is set to explore the wild, tragic and controversial life and career of heavyweight champion Tyson – one of the most polarizing figures in sports culture.The streamer ordered the series from I, Tonya screenwriter Steven Rogers and director Craig Gillespie with Margot Robbie exec producing and Mixed-ish’s Karin Gist set as showrunner and exec
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