Every couple years in Hollywood a new boxing movie hits the silver screen. The latest was David O. Russell’s The Fighter, which landed two Academy Awards on Sunday night. Bernard Hopkins hopes his biopic will be the next boxing movie to pull in those honors.
“After I win, I’m ready to tell my whole story,” Hopkins told ESPN, who will once again try to become the oldest world champion in boxing history at 46 when he faces light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal this summer in Canada. “I studied at the university of life.”
Hailing from the Philadelphia projects, Hopkins was sentenced to 18 years in prison for nine felonies at age 17. He was released after four years and began boxing, compiling a record of 51-5-2 over the next 20 years.
Hopkins has financial backing for his movie and has talked to the producers of Training Days and Brooklyn’s Finest about making the movie a reality. “Sometimes you have to almost die to know what living is about. I know my life can be an inspiration to others,” said Hopkins, who hopes to focus on the movie after the fight. “I learned my lessons early. Statistics show that I shouldn’t be alive today. I overcame so much.”
Where Dicky Eklund had Christian Bale portray him, Hopkins is looking for an actor a little less decorated. “I want 50 Cent,” Hopkins said. “He has the swagger. He doesn’t look approachable but he really is. He understands my life. It was his life also.”
Training Days? C’mon son.
Yeah, I bet the author didn’t even see the movie to know it’s actually called Training Day
has bernard ever seen a biopic? the actor usually has to resemble the subject…at least a tiny bit.
this could work cus 50 is phony enough to portray anybody lol
i love hopkins, hes not exciting but was a great fighter, but 50 cent! why ask an a-list asshole to portray your life?
if he was going to ask a rapper he should have asked the game. game looks more like bernard
only problem with this is that 50 cent couldn’t be taught to move anywhere near as fast as hopkins could if he had a lifetime to practice…
I want 50 to play me in this movie im writing about myself. Im white though. Even if we don’t look alike we act kinda the same.
U CAN’T STOP THIS MAN, ONLY GOD CAN! HE HAS GOD’S FAVOR THAT WHY HE IS SOO SUCCESSFUL AS HE IS IN LIFE! 50 HAS COME ALONG WAY SINCE 2003 AND HE STILL AMBITIOUS AS EVER! ANYBODY CAN SEE THAT THE PEOPLE THAT TAKE TIME OUT OF THEIR LIFE TO SPEAK NEGATIVE IS JEALOUS OF HIS SUCCESS! IF U CAN DO WHAT 50 HAS DONE BETTER THAN DO IT, DON’T SIT ON THE SIDELINE LIKE A LITTLE SCHOOL-GIRL AND HATE ON HIM, JUST OUT-DO HIM! GET A FAN-BASE AND SELL MULTI-DIAMOND & MULTI-PLATINUM ALBUMS YOURSELF, GET YOUR BUSINESS-GAME UP SO YOUR CAN SCORE MOVIE-DEALS, BOOKS, BEVERAGE, HEADPHONES, CLOTHES, SHOES, COLONGE, RECORD LABELS, ELECTRONICS,ETC. IN LESS THAN A DECADE 50 HAS MADE HIMSELF A HALF-BILLION-DOLLAR FORTUNE WHILE HIS HATERS/PEERS WATCH AND COMPLAIN! TIME DON’T WAIT ON NOBODY WHILE YOU HATING TIME IS BEING WASTED!