The Fighter Movie: Christian Bale & Mark Wahlberg

Want to see another contact sport movie after Mickey Rourke’s The Wrestler? Then you should watch out for this boxing movie, The Fighter, which will star Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg. The movie which begins shooting in June is about Boston fighter “Irish” Mickey Ward and how he was helped to the world lightweight championship by half-brother Dicky Eklund.

From Variety.com:

Eklund once decked Sugar Ray Leonard and went the distance against the boxing legend before forfeiting his career to drugs and crime. He redeemed himself by training Ward through his Rocky-like run to the title.

Wahlberg will play Ward, a fighter who was losing bouts and was ready to hang up the gloves when his brother came back into his life. Bale will play Eklund, whose drugs and robbery spree drew him a 10- to 15-year sentence in state prison. There, he kicked drugs, became a model prisoner and emerged as a changed man who helped his brother reach the glory that eluded him.

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