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Directed by | Rowan Athale |
Screenplay by | Rowan Athale |
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Cinematography | Larry Smith |
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Countries | United Kingdom United States |
Language | English |
Giant is an upcoming biographical sports drama film of boxer Prince Naseem Hamed. It is written and directed by Rowan Athale and stars Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan.
The film is written and directed by Rowan Athale. AGC Studios were in development on the project in 2020. [1] It was moving forward in January 2023, with Paddy Considine and Mena Massoud set to star. [2]
Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood are among the executive producers through Balboa Productions. It is produced by Mark Lane of Tea Shop Productions and Kevin Sampson of White Star Productions. AGC Studios and BondIt Media Capital are financing the film. AGC chairman and CEO Stuart Ford will also produce. [3]
Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan are cast as Prince Naseem and his coach Brendan Ingle. [4]
In April 2024, Katherine Dow Blyton, Austin Haynes, and Arian Nik joined the cast. [5]
Principal photography began in Leeds in April 2024. [6] [7] First look images from the set were reported in April 2024, showing Brosnan in character. [8]
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor and film producer. He was the fifth actor to play the fictional secret agent James Bond in the James Bond film series, starring in four films from 1995 to 2002 and in multiple video games, such as GoldenEye 007.
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Frank Warren is an English boxing manager and promoter and the founder of Queensberry Promotions. Warren was also a founder of the British boxing television channel BoxNation which ran for over 11 years from 2012.
Patrick George Considine is an English actor, director, screenwriter and musician. He is known for playing antiheros in independent films. He has received two British Academy Film Awards, three Evening Standard British Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards and a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
Brendán Îngle was an Irish boxing trainer, manager and former professional boxer based in Sheffield, England. Ingle trained four world champions in total at his Wincobank gym, including Johnny Nelson, "Prince" Naseem Hamed, Junior Witter, and Kell Brook.
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Naseem Hamed, nicknamed Prince Naseem and Naz, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2002. He held multiple featherweight world championships between 1995 and 2000, and reigned as lineal champion from 1998 to 2001. In 2015, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The Ring magazine retroactively awarded Hamed their featherweight title in 2019 to acknowledge his dominance of the division and the multiple champions he defeated; he is the only former world champion in any division thus far to receive this honour.
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