Following Robert De Niro’s retro-style character poster for 50 FIRST DATES director Peter Segal’s boxing comedy GRUDGE MATCH, Sylvester Stallone is not to be out done.
Here he is boxing clever is his own US one sheet from the film uniting the Oscar-winning COP LAND actors for the first time since James Mangold’s underrated 1997 mob thriller. Only this time their butting heads has a lighter tone.
In “Grudge Match,” De Niro and Stallone play Billy “The Kid” McDonnen and Henry “Razor” Sharp, two local Pittsburgh fighters whose fierce rivalry put them in the national spotlight. Each had scored a victory against the other during their heyday, but in 1983, on the eve of their decisive third match, Razor suddenly announced his retirement, refusing to explain why but effectively delivering a knock-out punch to both their careers. Thirty years later, boxing promoter Dante Slate Jr., seeing big dollar signs, makes them an offer they can’t refuse: to re-enter the ring and settle the score once and for all.
But they may not have to wait that long: on their first encounter in decades, their long-festering feud erupts into an unintentionally hilarious melee that instantly goes viral. The sudden social media frenzy transforms their local grudge match into a must-see HBO event. Now, if they can just survive the training, they may actually live to fight again.
GRUDGE MATCH is set for release in the US on the 25th December and the UK 17th January 2014. It co-stars Kevin Hart, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger and Jon Bernthal.
Source: Warner Bros.
