Bob Arum couldn’t resist the twisted pitch.

A movie producer approached him recently to ask about a film that would require someone to play Oscar De La Hoya. Arum suggested Emiliano Vargas, a son of Fernando Vargas, who had a bitter rivalry with “The Golden Boy” during their fighting days.

“They’re making a movie of the Sun Bowl fight with Oscar De La Hoya and [Patrick] Charpentier,” Arum told The Ring, “where the women all went crazy about Oscar in El Paso. And they’re looking for people to star in the movie. I suggested, in what would be a great sort of twist, having Emiliano play Oscar. But when you think of it, he’s a good-looking kid, like Oscar, a bilingual kid and all of that.”

De La Hoya was one of boxing’s biggest stars over the past 30 years, an Olympic gold medalist, six-division champion and box-office attraction who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014. Fernando Vargas was a star in his own right, but Arum sees potential in the 21-year-old junior welterweight prospect to perhaps surpass what his father, a former junior middleweight champion, accomplished.

“First of all, I like his ability,” Arum said. “But secondly, the way he carries himself and the way people react to him demonstrates to me that he can be a big star.”

Vargas, who acts and looks the part, is scheduled to take the next step in his developing career Saturday night in New York. ESPN will air an eight-round, 140-pound bout between Las Vegas’ Vargas (14-0, 12 KOs) and Ecuador’s Alexander Espinoza (20-3-1, 9 KOs) as the opener of a tripleheader from The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

The emerging Vargas has knocked out 86 percent of his opponents since he turned pro three years ago. Espinoza has been knocked out only once in 24 professional fights, and not in the past seven years.

“Emiliano has all the skills and he’s out there to entertain,” Arum said. “He really reads the room correctly, that to really emerge as a big star you have to sell yourself to the public. And he understands that.”

The precocious Vargas impresses Arum not only by the way he behaves when he is in the ring.

“He’s terrific,” Arum said. “The last time I saw him was at a WNBA basketball game in Las Vegas, an Aces game, and people were coming up to him. He charms everybody.”

After Vargas and Espinoza kick off ESPN’s coverage at 9 p.m. ET, Brooklyn’s Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington (15-0, 9 KOs) and Namibia’s Mateus Heita (14-0, 9 KOs) will fight for the WBC interim featherweight title in a 12-round bout. Xander Zayas (21-0, 13 KOs), of Sunrise, Florida, and Jorge Garcia (33-4, 26 KOs), of Los Mochis, Mexico, are set to square off in the 12-round main event for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title.