A24 has launched the first trailer of The Smashing Machine – a biographical sports drama about the heavyweights legend of the UFC Mark Kerr, played by Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson.
Kerr is a mixed martial artist who competed from 1997 to 2009 and won four ADCC world championships. In 2002, a documentary was made about the fighter (also called “Wrecking Ball”
Wrecking Ball – is the nickname that Ker won for his inflexible struggle style), focused, among other things, on their problems of substance abuse and their tumultuous relations with their wife and coaches. Now we are offered a more artistic portrait of the facts.
Johnson himself, before becoming a movie star, was also a fighter (hence the nickname of The Rock), debuted at the WWE in 1996 and became eight times WWE champion and two of the WCW.
Among the rest of the cast: Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples, Kerr’s wife, Bas Rutten, Lindsay Gavin and Oleksandr Usyk, who plays the Ukrainian fighter Igor Vovchanchyn, who defeated Kerr in 1999. In the movie, Vovchanchyn will be a serious physical and psychological test for Ker Cinematographic to date – has worked specifically in the MMA technique, has consulted with professional coaches and has seen fighting file images to recreate the fighter’s style as accurately as possible.
“Kick-Ass”-is the second collaboration between Johnson and Blunt from the Disney film “Jungle Cruise” 2021, and will continue with the next criminal thriller by Martin Scorsese.
Benny Safdie, who worked with his brother in “Diamonds in the Rough” and “Good Times,” debuts as solo director and screenwriter with “The Smashing Machine.” He is also an actor and has joined the gigantic star cast of the next “Odyssey” Christopher Nolan.
The cinemas premiere is scheduled for October 3.
