Real-life Couple Liev Schreiber And Naomi Watts Are Teaming Up On The Big Screen To Portray Boxer Chuck Wepner And His Wife Linda.
The Bleeder will follow the life of the fighter who shocked the world when he became the third person to knock former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali down during a match in 1975.
He was stopped in the fifteenth round. Wepner had his last fight in September of 1978.
Schreiber will also produce the movie, which is slated to start filming this month (October 15) in New York under the direction of The Good Lie's Philippe Falardeau.
Movie mythology suggests Wepner served as the inspiration for Sylvester Stallone's boxing character Rocky Balboa, which spawned seven films with the boxer's character.