Southpaw
• Tagline: Believe In Hope
• Director: Antoine Fuqua
• Writers: Kurt Sutter
• Release Date: 24 July 2015 (USA)
• MPAA Rating: R
• Parents Guide: View content advisory for parents
• Genre: Drama
• Runtime: 124 min
• Box Office #s: Here
Boxer Billy Hope turns to trainer Tick Wills to help him get his life back on track after losing his wife in a tragic accident and his daughter to child protection services.
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Cast Highlights
• Rachel McAdams … Maureen Hope
• Forest Whitaker … Titus ‘Tick’ Wills
• Naomie Harris … Angela Rivera
• 50 Cent … Jordan Mains
Trivia
- The film was originally considered as an unofficial follow-up to the movie 8 Mile (2002) with Eminem reprising his role. The script eventually evolved and that idea was scraped.
- Lupita Nyong’o was cast as Angela Rivera but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and Naomie Harris replaced her.
- Jake Gyllenhaal went through an intense 2 hours a day of training 7 days a week. Training at Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s Atlanta training center.
- Kurt Sutter’s first film script.
- Eminem made his second song for a soundtrack for a movie of Antoine Fuqua. The first was for The Equalizer (“Guts over Fear”)
- Eminem was originally scouted for the role, which he accepted and started filming. The film had to be put on hold as Eminem wanted to focus on his music career, so the role was then given to Jake Gyllenhaal.
- Eminem is doing one song for the movie, called Phenomenal. But he is executive producing the rest of the album.
- The writing credits in early promotional material read “Story by Kurt Sutter. Screenplay by Sutter and Richard Wenk”. Sutter received sole “Written by” credit following an arbitration conducted by the Writers Guild of America.
