{"id":760585,"date":"2026-06-25T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:51:14","slug":"harold-perrineau-ronda-rousey-team-on-brawlers-mma-drama-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760585\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold Perrineau, Ronda Rousey Team On Brawlers MMA Drama (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harold-perrineau\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harold-perrineau\" data-tag=\"harold-perrineau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Perrineau<\/a> (From) is set to lead\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brawlers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brawlers\" data-tag=\"brawlers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brawlers<\/a>, a gritty MMA drama exec produced by retired MMA star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ronda-rousey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ronda-rousey\" data-tag=\"ronda-rousey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronda Rousey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDetails as to the story are being kept under wraps, other than it being set against the backdrop of L.A.\u2019s amateur MMA scene. Jonathan Fernandez will direct from his own script, in his feature debut. Andrew Carlberg and Jackie Carr are producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrawlers\u00a0has been awarded the California tax incentive and will shoot on location in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKnown for starring in MGM+\u2019s sci-fi horror series\u00a0From, which is heading into its fifth and final season, Perrineau\u2019s credits in film include\u00a0The Matrix\u00a0trilogy, Baz Luhrmann\u2019s\u00a0Romeo + Juliet, Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s\u00a0Zero Dark Thirty,\u00a0The Best Man\u00a0franchise \u2014 including recent Peacock offshoot\u00a0The Best Man: The Final Chapters\u00a0\u2014 and post-apocalyptic horror\u00a028 Weeks Later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn television, Perrineau is also noted for starring in ABC\u2019s\u00a0Lost\u00a0and HBO\u2019s\u00a0Oz, along with roles in\u00a0Claws,\u00a0The Rookie,\u00a0Star,\u00a0Goliath\u00a0and\u00a0Sons of Anarchy. He also previously starred on Broadway opposite Diane Lane in\u00a0The Cherry Orchard\u00a0and is repped by IAG and Jason Shapiro of Strand Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCredited with helping to propel women\u2019s MMA into the mainstream, Rousey was active professionally in the sport from 2011 to 2016. Her career included a dominant run in Strikeforce and UFC, six successful UFC title defenses, and a string of rapid finishes that made her a major draw on PPV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBefore becoming a UFC star, Rousey won a bronze medal in judo at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first American woman to earn an Olympic medal in that sport. She was the first UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion and after MMA, transitioned into WWE, where she won the Raw Women\u2019s Championship and headlined\u00a0WrestleMania 35\u00a0in the first women\u2019s main event in the show\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe broke news of a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/ronda-rousey-film-euphoria-director-augustine-frizzell-1236439095\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix biopic on Rousey<\/a> that she penned herself last summer. The status of that project, with Augustine Frizzell at the helm, is unclear. Rousey is repped by WME and Brecheen Feldman Breimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Harold Perrineau (From) is set to lead\u00a0Brawlers, a gritty MMA drama exec produced by retired MMA star Ronda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[271056,49,48,641,233159,638,1867,82],"class_list":["post-760585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-brawlers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-harold-perrineau","tag-mma","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760585","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=760585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}