Kuriosa
FAKTA:
Ali, Muhammad till 1964 Cassius Clay f. 1942, amerikansk boxare. OS-guld i lätt tungvikt 1960, tungviktsvärldsmästare 1964, fråntogs titeln 1967 då han vägrade delta i Vietnamkriget, återtog den 1974. Blev 1978 den förste tungviktare att tre gånger erövra VM-titeln. Medlem av Black Muslims.
AVHOPP:
Barry Sonnenfeld;
BUDGET:
$100 miljoner;
PROBLEM:
Will Smith's hard work in the gym to transform himself into Muhammad Ali for a biopic about the famed pugilist may have been for nothing. Sony is on the verge of scrapping director Michael Mann's movie because of a budget projected to surpass the studio's $105 million cap. Sony put the project into turnaround late last week. But skeptics caution that move may just be a bargaining ploy, intended to rein in a headstrong helmer;
RÄDDAT:
The Michael Mann-helmed biopic about the iconic, and iconoclastic, pugilist was placed in turnaround last week after Mann told Col's toppers he couldn't guarantee his movie would be delivered at the previously agreed cost of $106 million. But an exhaustive, weeklong series of meetings between Col physical production topper Gary Martin, producer Jon Peters and helmer Mann resulted in a slightly shortened shooting sked and a recommitment by new financial partner, IEG, with whom talks had stalled.
NEJTACK:
?I turned it down for a few years,? says Smith of the role of legendary boxer and cultural icon Muhammad Ali. ?It just seemed entirely too huge. I knew I?d have triple duty: I had to learn how to fight. Then I had to learn how to fight like Ali, the greatest fighter of all time. And then just becoming the man.?
DVD:
790,000 sålda ex.