Hollywood action star Sylvester Stallone is teaming up with MGM to develop a biopic on legendary boxing champion Jack Johnson, who was recently posthumously pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Johnson was a dominant boxer and the first African-American heavyweight champion.
The film will launch Stallone's Balboa Productions, created to develop film and television projects, reported Variety.
Stallone was instrumental in obtaining a presidential pardon for Johnson, who was convicted of violating the Mann Act in 1910 for transporting a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes."
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