James Bond actor turned boxing trainer? That\u2019s right!\u00a0Pierce Brosnan\u00a0is set to portray Dublin-born coach\u00a0Brendan Inglein\u00a0Giant, the forthcoming big-screen retelling of boxing superstar\u00a0Prince\u00a0Naseem Hamed\u2019s story.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Directed and written by Rowan Athale, with Amir El\u2011Masry starring as Hamed, backed by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions.<\/p>\n
Ingle’s journey is cinematic gold\u2014from steelworker to legendary trainer who nurtured world champions like Hamed, Johnny Nelson, Junior Witter, and Kell Brook. Brosnan\u2019s transformation is dramatic: spotted in character with stark-white hair, tracksuit, glasses, and gym towel\u2014unrecognisable but obviously channeling Ingle’s spirit.<\/p>\n
The movie retraces Hamed\u2019s unbelievable rise from Sheffield\u2019s streets to global icon, complete with his unorthodox style, swagger, and triumph over racism and Islamophobia in 80s\/90s Britain.\u00a0Brosnan’s casting follows an earlier fallout with downgrades and redevelopment, but fans are already buzzing at the thought of Brosnan and El\u2011Masry delivering a powerful trainer\u2011and\u2011fighter duo.<\/p>\n
With powerful boxing scenes promised, a deep dive into that pivotal mentor\u2011student bond, and a production shot partly due to UK\u2019s new film tax credit, Giant is shaping up as a knockout sports drama.<\/p>\n
Tune in to World Wide Reb, weekday mornings at 8.45am on 98FM’s Big Breakfast for all the latest entertainment news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Bond actor turned boxing trainer? That\u2019s right!\u00a0Pierce Brosnan\u00a0is set to portray Dublin-born coach\u00a0Brendan Inglein\u00a0Giant, the forthcoming big-screen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-20906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}