After getting shelved for a bit, then earning rave reviews last week at CinemaCon for the first screening, we finally have the first footage of Warrior. The MMA drama stars Tom Hardy (Bronson, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) and Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Thing), as well as Jennifer Morrison and Nick Nolte. I love the two leads and personally can’t wait to check it out. The drama comes from Miracle and Pride and Glory director Gavin O’Connor. It was a smart move for Lionsgate to wait to release this film after The Fighter. It seems prime for that exact audience and there has even been some award buzz for this as well. Check out the trailer below via Apple.
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?