Former boxing champion and legendary fighting figure Mike Tyson is set to join Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan in Black Flies, an upcoming dramatic thriller directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tyson will join the film in a lead role, and will play the superior office of both Penn and Sheridan, two New York City paramedics.
Sheridan will play a first-year medic who arrives on the streets of New York eager to help people.
Tyson does have a history in the world of acting, however, appearing in films like The Hangover, the Scary Movie series, Ip Man 3, China Salesman, and more.