Rowan Athale will write and direct the drama about the British-Yemeni world champion.
, which will focus on Hamed’s rags-to-riches rise as a child of Yemeni working-class immigrants in Yorkshire who became a southpaw superstar.
Hamed was discovered in Sheffield by Ingle, a steel industry worker-turned-boxing trainer, and their unlikely partnership became the basis of one of the most successful and dramatic careers in fighting. with Ford, Mark Lane of Tea Shop Productions, and Kevin Sampson of White Star Productions producing. Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood of Balboa Productions are on board to executive produce.
Hamad’s unorthodox boxing style and cocky persona made him an overnight sensation.
“I have wanted to bring this movie to screen for many years,” said Athale. “The story of fabled boxing trainer Brendan Ingle and his tempestuous relationship with protege “Prince” Naseem is both legendary, and truly cinematic. It’s exciting, necessary, hilarious, and heartbreaking, and to be making this movie with the incomparable Paddy Considine and Mena Massoud, and with the support of the one and only Sylvester Stallone and his Balboa Productions team, is a dream come true.
Paddy Considine’s deal was brokered by CAA and Independent Talent Group, Mena Massoud’s by Derek Kroeger of Myman, Greenspan, Fox, Rosenberg, Mobasser, Younger & Light, Gersh and LINK Entertainment and negotiated by SVP, Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa on behalf of AGC Studios.
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