Pierce Brosnan And Amir El-Masry have signed on to star within the sports activities drama Big from AGC Studios in regards to the lifetime of British-Yemeni boxer Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed and his rags-to-riches ascent to a world championship below the tutelage of his Irish-born boxing coach Brendan Ingle.
El-Masry will play Naz, and Brosnan is ready to painting Ingle. The movie will probably be written and directed by Rowan Athale (The Rise, Gangs of London, Unusual However True) and produced by Mark Lane of Tea Store Productions and Kevin Sampson of White Star Productions, it was introduced by AGC Chairman and CEO Stuart Ford, who can even produce.
The undertaking is ready to start capturing in Leeds, England in late April. Initially scheduled to shoot all of its interiors in Malta, AGC moved the pic again to the UK to make the most of the nation’s new Impartial Movie Tax Credit score introduced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in March.
AGC Studios and BondIt Media Capital are financing the movie. Zygi Kamasa’s True Brit Leisure has taken UK distribution rights with AGC Worldwide dealing with worldwide gross sales on the title. On board to govt produce are Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood of Balboa Productions, AGC Studios’ Miguel Palos, Zach Garrett and Anant Tamirisa, BondIt’s Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor and Tyler Gould, Michael Ewing and True Brit’s Zygi Kamasa.
The movie’s synopsis reads: Big is the true story of Hamed’s humble beginnings on the powerful working-class streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Ingle, himself a metal business employee turned boxing coach. Their unlikely partnership together with Naz’ unorthodox fashion, cocky persona, and sheer dominance within the ring, propelled them to the highest of boxing’s elite and unprecedented ranges of world superstardom, all within the face of the rampant Islamophobia and racism of 80’s and 90’s Britain.
“Since commissioning Rowan to jot down the good screenplay for ‘Big’ a number of years in the past, we’ve been captivated with bringing this extraordinary story to the massive display,” mentioned Ford. “Amir and Pierce will make a robust lead duo and it’s thrilling that Zygi and his crew at True Brit, with their excellent profession monitor report in launching one of the best of British movie to audiences, imagine as fervently as we do in ‘Big’s’ cinematic potential.”
Kamasa added: “Rowan has written a brilliantly entertaining boxing Biopic, that spotlights the unbelievable relationship between Hamed and his coach Brendan Ingle and showcases the vastly entertaining fashion that took “Naz” to international superstardom as world featherweight champion. Dramatic, visceral, and galvanizing with unbelievable boxing scenes, that is precisely the type of British movie audiences need to see within the cinema and we’re thrilled to be filming within the UK following the brand new tax credit score being launched to the business.”
Pierce Brosnan is represented by CAA, Viewpoint and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Amir El-Masry is represented by Ollie Azis at Impartial Expertise Group and Rowan Athale is represented by Tom Lassally at 3 Arts Leisure and Mady Niel at 42. EVP of Authorized & Enterprise Affairs Anant Tamirisa is representing AGC Studios on the undertaking.
