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Mike Tyson's character to be portrayed by Jamie Foxx in biopic

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Last Updated : Jul 29 2014 | 10:46 AM IST

Mike Tyson's character will be portrayed by Jamie Foxx in with the help of Martin Scorsese in the boxer's upcoming biopic, according to reports.

Tyson revealed that special effects will be used so that the Academy winner actor Foxx could portray him throughout his troubled life in a film, the Mirror reported.

Tyson said that within a year to 18 months, they were going to do the Mike Tyson story and the 46-year-old actor will portray him, and now they had this new animation because Fox was pretty much his age so he could not portray me but they had this new system.

The 48-year-old boxer asserted that Foxx would be transformed by the CGI technology that also helped Brad Pitt to change from an old man to a baby in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'.

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First Published: Jul 29 2014 | 10:35 AM IST

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