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EXCLUSIVE: A24‘s Dwayne Johnson starring, Benny Safdie directed The Smashing Machine about MMA fighter Mark Kerr has set a theatrical launch date of Oct. 3.
The information comes within the wake of Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, trying to vacate that date because it mulls a two-part. The Smashing Machine pushes its approach on a weekend towards Paramount’s Derek Cianfrance directed Roofman starring Channing Tatum, and NEON’s subsequent Oz Perkins horror movie, The Keeper. That’s the fairly the auteur brawl.
Safdie additionally write and produced and Johnson’s co-star of The Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt can also be within the film.
Pic follows Kerr (Johnson) from the no-holds-barred period of the UFC on the peak of his profession, as he questions himself and struggles with life and his relationships. In the meantime, Mark’s girlfriend, Daybreak Staples (Blunt) struggles as effectively to search out her place in Mark’s chaotic and contradictory world.
Producers embrace Safdie by way of his Out for the Depend banner, and Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia for Seven Bucks Productions, along with David Koplan and Eli Bush.
Throughout Kerr’s MMA profession he was a two-time UFC Heavyweight Match Champion, World Vale Tudo Championship match winner, a PRIDE FC Heavyweight Champion, 1992 NCAA Nationwide Wrestling Champion, 1994 Nationwide Freestyle Champion and 4x ADCC World Submission Champion. In 2003, Kerr was the topic of an HBO documentary titled The Smashing Machine which detailed his MMA profession preventing in Vale Tudo, the UFC and PRIDE.
