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TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: You know, the 1980 movie was aptly titled, because this guy was, you know, by all accounts raging in and out of the ring.ĭON DUNPHY: Both men blaze away at the (unintelligible). NPR's Tom Goldman remembers the former middleweight champion and his complicated life. Jake LaMotta died yesterday in a Florida hospital. Retrieved on August 2, 2012.The boxer whose life was immortalized in the film "Raging Bull" has died.

"MGM Settles 'Raging Bull II' Lawsuit With Movie Name Change." Archived August 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Deadline Hollywood (August 1, 2012). "MGM Files 'Raging Bull 2′ Lawsuit Against Jake LaMotta & Sequel Producers." Archived July 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Deadline Hollywood (July 3, 2012). ^ "The Bronx Bull: Joe Mantegna, Tom Sizemore, William Forsythe, Paul Sorvino"."The Bronx Bull is definitely not a Raging Bull sequel, especially in this trailer". In August 2012, the producers retitled the film The Bronx Bull, disassociating itself as a sequel to Raging Bull, and the lawsuit was subsequently dropped. In addition, MGM argues that the defendants are publicly claiming the film to be a sequel to the original film, which could most likely "tarnish" its predecessor's reputation. The former party argued that they have rights to make any authorized sequel to the original book, which goes back to an agreement LaMotta and co-author Peter Savage made with Chartoff-Winkler, producers of the original film. In July 2012, MGM, owners of United Artists, filed a lawsuit against LaMotta and the producers of Raging Bull II to keep the new film from being released.

In 2006, Variety reported that Sunset Pictures was developing a sequel to Raging Bull entitled Raging Bull II: Continuing the Story of Jake LaMotta, chronicling LaMotta's early life, as told in the sequel novel of the same name.