Brad Pitt in Talks For Micky Ward Movie

[Phantasm]

Brad Pitt Ready to Rumble in Boxing Movie

Found this on Yahoo...looks like 'The Fighter' based on Micky Wards life and starring Mark Wahlberg is losing Matt Damon as ****ie Eklund but gaining Brad Pitt to replace him.


Brad Pitt is in negotiations to team with Mark Wahlberg in "The Fighter," a boxing drama to be directed by Darren Aronofsky.

Pitt is putting on the gloves that were to have been worn by Matt Damon, who had to bow out because of scheduling conflicts.

What is more notable, however, is that Pitt might finally make a movie with Aronofsky, with whom he was to have collaborated on "The Fountain" in 2002. Pitt pulled out of that movie during preproduction, effectively killing it until Aronofsky resurrected it in 2005 with Hugh Jackman at half the previous budget. Relations between the two soured for a while afterward. ("The Fountain" bombed at the box office last year.)

Based on the life of boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and his trainer brother **** Eklund (Pitt), "The Fighter" chronicles their early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Mass., through Eklund's battle with drugs and Ward's eventual world championship in London. It is set up at Paramount.

Pitt returns to theaters Friday in the Western "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," which opens in limited release.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[ИATAS]

wow, this movie is going to be huge. I find it interesting that Darren Aronofski is the director since his other movies have been so different - he did Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (all great movies btw). He's a very "artsy" director so it seems very out of character for him to do a boxing movie.

Looking forward to this.

[El Jesus]

wow, this movie is going to be huge. I find it interesting that Darren Aronofski is the director since his other movies have been so different - he did Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (all great movies btw). He's a very "artsy" director so it seems very out of character for him to do a boxing movie.

Looking forward to this.

directors are directors, speilberg went from E.T to Schindlers List, to Munich, to producing transformers

[ИATAS]

That's true but I've been following Aronofski for years now and I would never imagine him doing a movie on a boxer. If you've seen his previous work it seems strange, that's all.

Spielberg and the likes can switch so easily because they are only concerned with huge box office hits, whereas directors like Aronofski spend their careers never caring about how much money a movie generates, although I'm sure that is subject to change.

[ml2niceguy]

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice....brad did a good job as a boxer in snatch lol

[boxingfan4life]

They better show the ****in' Gatti fights, the majority of people who don't follow boxing only know Ward through word of mouth of the Gatti fights and/or because he's from Mass (well, us Mass heads know him cause he's from Lowell).

I agree with you on that. The movie will be a piece of **** if they don't add those fights. I hope the producers don't **** it up.

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there are better fighters to make a movie out of than ward. i dont even know him that much. i onle heard of him because of his fight with gatti and he was on gatti's corner at one time