Release Dates: ‘Apollo 18’ And ‘Warrior’ With Tom Hardy
ConsideringApollo 18hada release datebefore it hada director, and that release date was four months away, it’s not that big of a shock that theTimur Bekmambetov-produced film has been moved from its original March 4 release date. What’s more surprising is that it only moved back a month, to April 22. The film, which is a found footage tale about a secret moon mission which resulted in an alien encounter, is directed byGonzalo Lopez-Gallego.
In other release date news, the rise ofTom Hardycontinues this year as his new filmWarrior, directed byGavin O’Connor(Pride and Glory,Miracle), will hit theaters on September 9. Read more about that film after the jump.
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We haven’t written aboutWarriorin almost two years, last announcing that Nick Nolte was joining the cast. And though it has popped up here and there, it seems as if Lionsgate now realizes they have a film with a bona fide star on their hands set in a very popular world: mixed martial arts. Here’s the plot description.
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.
Check out this image from the film as well.
Though they have nothing to do with each other, which movie are you more excited for,Apollo 18orWarrior?
