Watch Now: Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Southpaw’ Trailer Looks Set To Be A Knockout

I’m going to put this out there right now –Jake Gyllenhaal ’s performance in Antoine Fuqua’s SOUTHPAW has Academy Award Nominee for Best Actor stamped all over it.

With chameleonic fidelity, Gyllenhaal is explosive as the tortured Junior Middleweight World Boxing Champion fighter Billy ‘The Great’ Hope who, after a series of tragic personal setbacks, is forced to fight back and regain the things he has lost.

The first trailer released today exerts a powerfully raw and rough-around-the-edges feeling yet still manages to impart an emotional backbone that will pull at your heartstrings. Add in a strong supporting cast including Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, Tyrese Gibson, Curtis ’50 Cent’ Gibson, Miguel Gomez (THE STRAIN), Beau Knapp (RUN ALL NIGHT), and Rita Ora and some impressive looking ring work and you have a film that has the potential to be sit alongside other great fighting films like THE FIGHTER and RAGING BULL.

Check it out for yourself below, this one is very special:

SOUTHPAW opens in cinemas on July 31st.

Source: The Weinstein Company