Pierce Brosnan will star with Amir El-Masry in the athletics drama Huge based on the compelling true-everyday living tale of British-Yemeni pugilist Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed and his rags to riches ascent to a Globe Championship less than the tutelage of his Irish-born boxing coach Brendan Ingle. El-Masry will play Naz, and Brosnan is established to portray Ingle. The movie will be written and directed by Rowan Athale (The Increase, Gangs of London, Strange But True) and manufactured by Mark Lane of Tea Store Productions and Kevin Sampson of White Star Productions, it was introduced now by AGC Chairman and CEO Stuart Ford, who will also create.
AGC Studios and BondIt Media Cash are financing the movie.
On board to govt create are Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood of Balboa Productions, AGC Studios’ Miguel Palos and Zach Garrett, BondIt’s Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor and Tyler Gould, Michael Ewing and Real Brit’s Zygi Kamasa.
Zygi Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment has taken United kingdom distribution rights with AGC Global managing global revenue on the title. The project is set to begin shooting in Leeds, England in late April. Originally scheduled to shoot all of its interiors in Malta, AGC created the decision to go the entirety of creation again to the British isles and as such Huge is a person of the initially productions to directly relocate as a consequence of the recently enacted Independent Film Tax Credit history introduced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
Huge is the legitimate story of Hamed’s humble beginnings on the tricky functioning-course streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Ingle, himself a steel marketplace employee turned boxing trainer. Their not likely partnership together with Naz’ unorthodox fashion, cocky persona and sheer dominance in the ring, propelled them to the prime of boxing’s elite and unprecedented amounts of world wide superstardom, all in the confront of the rampant Islamophobia and racism of 80’s and 90’s Britain.
Ford expressed his support for the undertaking, noting that “due to the fact commissioning Rowan to create the amazing screenplay for ‘Big’ several years ago, we’ve been passionate about bringing this incredible story to the significant monitor. Amir and Pierce will make a strong guide duo and it’s enjoyable that Zygi and his workforce at Accurate Brit, with their superb profession monitor record in launching the greatest of British film to audiences, imagine as fervently as we do in ‘Giant’s’ cinematic likely.”
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