Lionsgate has debuted the trailer for Warrior starring Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) and Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom) which is set to hit theaters on September 9.
The film centers on two estranged brothers on a collision course as each pursue a career as MMA fighters to help forget their past. here’s the official synopsis:
Two brothers face the fight of a lifetime — and the wreckage of their broken family –– within the brutal, high-stakes world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting in Lionsgate’s action/drama, Warrior.
An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy) returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, (Joel Edgerton) a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family after being suspended from his day job. Even though years have passed, recriminations and betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father.
But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives.
The film co-stars Nick Nolte and Jennifer Morrison and was directed by Gavin O’Connor (Pride and Glory). Check out the trailer below.
