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EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Tambakis, who teamed with Gavin O’Connor and Cliff Dorfman to write the underrated film Warrior, has sold his novel Swimming With Bridgeport Girls to Simon & Schuster for spring 2013 publication. This comes at a time when Tambakis and O’Connor are teamed on a stage play adaptation of The Hustler, the Walter Tevis novel that was turned into the 1961 pool hustler film that starred Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. Tambakis and O’Connor are writing it and eyeing a Broadway bow, with Renee Zellweger aboard to play Sarah Packard, Fast Eddie Felson’s companion.
Swimming With Bridgeport Girls is a romantic comedy about a charismatic young gambler who loses everything and sets off on a quest to win back his wife, using a faulty recollection of the climax of The Great Gatsby as his inspiration. Tambakis will adapt the novel for the screen, and The Gotham Group will produce.
On the Warrior front, I am surprised that it is generating no awards-season buzz, especially for what should have been a breakout performance by Tom Hardy. Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte were also on top of their games in this tragic father-son-brother triangle.
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Warrior was as good if not better than The Fighter and The Wrestler. Just poorly and wrongly marketed.
Absolutely.
Terrific performances all around. Horribly, horribly marketed. (Just like MONEYBALL, by the way.)
From the ads, I didn’t think I wanted to see it. And then I wanted to go see a matinee one weekend, chose it because there was nothing else to see.
Only seven of us in the theater. All blown away. Tears, the whole deal. After the movie we stood out in the theater lobby talking for a while — about how great the movie was and how terrible the marketing.
Absolutely agree. Seen it twice now and it’s even better the 2nd time around – it totally holds up. A great character driven film, with a story that people could relate to given the economy and Brendan’s (Joel E.) struggle with his mortgage, etc.
I’d have to agree, they really needed to market this different but hopefully good word of mouth will help it.
Nick Nolte better at least get the nom and I think Joel and Tom both deserve best actor noms.
I agree with you SS, it was a better film than The Fighter, which in my opinion was plagued with a poor script. And yes, Bale and Leo were great, but the focus of the film was lost by a need to let them shine. Also, I believe a lot of people don’t actually know Hardy is a good actor. Not many people have seen Bronson, and he wasn’t in Inception long enough to catch peoples attention. Years from now, I think this performance will be seen as one of the greats in the fight film genre.
Speaking of no awards buzz, where’s THE GUARD amongst all these nominations?
Warrior sucked. That is why is made no money and why it’s generating no “awards buzz.”
Well, since you’re a WGA writer you must really know what you’re taking about.
Because the only scrips you can count on to be quality are written by member of the WGA. That’s a guarantee you can count on!
Signed,
Another WGA Writer
Warrior is the best movie of the year hands down. How is it not getting ANY buzz?
Warrior was amazing and Nick Nolte should be getting pushed.
Pushed? That seems a little harsh. I mean, what’d the guy ever do to you?
It is a crime that Nolte is not being considered for a best supporting actor!! Wake the fuck up old people and see the movie!! Hardy killed it and if can remain sain could be one of the greatest actors of his fucking generation!! Please do…
They need to re-release this movie with a cooler marketing campaign! Word of mouth has spread–they could get people in theaters this time around. Use the re-release as a story, platform it…
Fantastic film.
This book sounds good. Would be cool if Tom Hardy played the gambler. Guy is obviously a serious writer. No chance Nolte or Hardy get nominated?
I LOVED this movie. One of this year’s best. Too bad the marketing sold the fighting and not the relationships.
Absolutely one of my favorite movies of the year, and really sad that it suffered because of Lionsgate’s financial problems.