Warrior

Joel Edgerton (King Arthur, Animal Kingdom) and Tom Hardy (Inception, Bronson) pack on the pounds in the upcoming action/drama WARRIOR. This actually looks extremely good, and I have to say I'm looking forward to it; something of a mixture between Brothers and Cinderella Man (Basically, family crossed with a redemption theme).

Tom Hardy, the shape shifting forger in Christopher Nolan's Inception, packed on nearly 40 pounds of muscle, which is probably being sustained or added to since his current role is the medically enhanced muscleman Bane in Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. And Joel Edgerton has been fine toning his Australian career with this past years Oscar contender Animal Kingdom. Now I say this knowing he played freaking Gawain in King Arthur, a strong supporting character in a somewhat "Eh" movie, but still to go from that to step brother to Anakin Skywalker in the new Star Wars series. Anyone else catch that? Totally missed it myself. Still it's Star Wars, and he got to leave his mark.

Anywho, check out the trailer...it's gonna be awesome. And the synopsis is at the bottom. Enjoy.




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 Riordan returns to his hometown 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, a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past 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.