While British actor David Oyelowo hasn’t hit it big quite yet (despite roles of Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and The Help), Hollywood certainly seems to think he has a bright future, with parts in The Paperboy, Lincoln, Jack Reacher and The Butler all incoming.
Now Deadline reports that he’s to play legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in the biopic Sweet Thunder, based on Wil Haygood’s biography, Sweet Thunder: The Life And Times Of Sugar Ray Robinson.
Haygood also wrote the first draft of the screenplay, with producer and writer Danny Strong looking to possibly do a second draft, depending on who the director is. Sweet Thunder will follow Sugar Ray Robinson’s exploits throughout his early career, and his refusal to get into the ring with organised crime, which cost him quite a few title bouts. The film will look at how the boxer helped expose the seedy underbelly of boxing, making it a more legitimate sport.
Oprah Winfrey was nominated for an Oscar for her movie acting debut in The Color Purple, but she’s rarely returned to the silver screen, preferring instead to get paid ludicrous amounts of money to host a chat show and then setting up her own TV station. However it appears she’s thinking about returning to acting, as 
Steven Spielberg’s biopic of Lincoln already has an incredibly impressive cast, and now it’s added another talented name to the ranks, British actor David Oyelowo. He joins Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Lee Pace, David Strathairn, Jackie Early Haley and loads more illustrious names.