Why haven't they made a movie about George Foreman yet?

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

Had a great documentary

 

[Erratic415]

His most interesting moments are using put into Ali movies is why. Outside of that shyt, it would just be a grills and shyt.

• Outside of being a beast in the ring, dude was humble AF
• Family man<<<<scandal filled scumbag sports figures
• Not enough controversy from George

The only way a Foreman movie would work is if it focuses on his comeback trail to being the oldest boxing champion of the time. The movie could focus on his previous fights of the past with the Rumble in the Jungle being the fight that really gave him a humble spirit.

Now that shyt would be

Now a full blown flick ala Ali, hell nah. Dude too safe to waste two hours for a basic biography story

Foreman's whole story is far from safe and basic.

And the fact a lot of his crazy stuff is not as known as other boxers, like Tyson, makes it better since viewers may be surprised.

Nah, he had a really wild and unusual life. Early on he was in the Fifth Ward Houston streets mugging people before going in the job corps. He was only boxing for about a year before he won a Gold Medal in the 1968 Olympics.

He was an underdog when he beat Joe Frazier for the HW title and then lost to Muhammad Ali in Zaire and sunk into a major depression. He also found out that the guy whom he thought all his life was his father actually wasn’t his biological father. That’s apparently the reason he names so many of his kids George, so they know who their father is.

After losing to Jimmy Young in Puerto Rico (he almost died of heat exhaustion and was delirious in the locker room), he became a preacher and didn’t box for 10 years. His ex-wife had a couple of their kids with her in St. Lucia. He went there and basically kidnapped his kids back with him to the US, escaping on a boat with Rastafarian drug dealers.

His youth center was running out of funds, so he returned to boxing after 10 years and eventually won the title from Moorer and had the grill.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

When We Were Kings is the movie he’s looking for. That was the most interesting time in Foreman’s life until he made the old school comeback and knocked out Michael Moorer. I like George Forman but he was too much of an introvert when he was younger to make a movie about. He was the perfect Goliath in somebody else’s David and Goliath story. Spent decades depressed and out of the limelight until he became boxing version of Uncle Drew (if Uncle Drew was a real person.) It would make an interesting 30 for 30, but not enough for a movie plus you will have that being overshadowed by a much more interesting character part.

At least that’s what I think


Edit: now that I thought about it ,the story of the unstoppable monster taking an embarrassing L bouncing back and reinventing himself into he lovable entrepreneur might make a good movie.

George was robbin cats in 5th ward until he met the right one ..

george was animal in 5th ward back in the day...

his story would shock alot of ppl..

then if they put how he trained in the mix...u gone have alotttt of nikkas diggin ditches and pullin cars