Or, should I say cage? While Tom Hardy is currently feeling extra bulky in his Bane role for The Dark Knight Rises, the rising actor has spruced up for another film hitting theaters this fall. From Miracle and Pride and Glory director Gavin O’Connor, the MMA drama Warrior also stars Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Thing), as well as Jennifer Morrison and Nick Nolte. The whole thing screened to great reviews at CinemaCon and we already had our first trailer, but IGN has a “trailer #2,” but it is more like a an extended TV spot. Check it out below.
Two brothers face the fight of a lifetime – and the wreckage of their broken family – within the brutal, high-stakes world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting in Lionsgate’s action/drama, WARRIOR.
An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy) returns to hishometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, (Joel Edgerton) a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family after being suspended from his day job. Even though years have passed, recriminations and betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father.
But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives.
Warrior hits theaters September 9th, 2011.
What did you think of the trailer? Will you see it?