EXCLUSIVE: Five-time Emmy Award nominated actor Michael K. Williams has joined Khris Davis and Sullivan Jones in the untitled biopic of legendary two-time world heavyweight champion George Foreman with George Tillman Jr.
directing. The film is set up under Sony’s AFFIRM Films label.The film will follow the remarkable life and times of George Foreman, from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to preacher, then stepping back in the ring to regain the heavyweight champion at age 45, the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.Williams will play Doc Broadus, who was his trainer and mentor .Broadus was one of the key personnel at the Job Corps when Foreman arrived
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