{"id":285625,"date":"2025-07-23T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285625\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:24:18","slug":"watch-the-powerful-trailer-for-pierce-brosnans-inspiring-90s-set-british-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285625\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the powerful trailer for Pierce Brosnan’s “inspiring” ’90s-set British biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giant<\/a>, an upcoming biopic starring Pierce Brosnan<\/a> and Amir El-Masry, has released an official trailer. <\/p>\n

Based on the real-life story of world boxing champion Prince Naseem Hamed (El-Masry), the sports drama will chronicle his changing dynamic with legendary trainer Brendan Ingle (Brosnan), who coached him for 16 years. <\/p>\n

“Charting his inspiring rags-to-riches underdog tale from his humble beginnings in Sheffield to becoming champion of the world and a global sporting icon in the 1990s, the film explores the unlikely and tender relationship between Naz and his Irish boxing trainer, Brendan Ingle, and the instrumental role that Ingle played on his road to success,” the synopsis explains. <\/p>\n

“With exhilarating and visceral scenes in the ring, coupled with deeply moving and intimate moments behind the curtain, Giant is an inspiring biopic of one of the greatest showmen the sporting world has ever seen \u2013 the untold true story of the boy behind The Prince.”<\/p>\n

Currently, a release date has yet to be determined, but fans will be able to see Giant in cinemas. <\/p>\n

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Written and directed by Rowan Athale, the film also stars Katherine Dow Blyton, Isabelle Bonfrer and Arian Nik. Meanwhile, Rocky and Creed star Sylvester Stallone<\/a> serves as an executive producer. <\/p>\n

Brosnan, who recently starred in the critically acclaimed series MobLand<\/a>, has a busy year ahead. While the actor will be promoting Giant, he is also gearing up for the release of The Thursday Murder Club<\/a>, which will land in select UK cinemas on 22 August, before premiering on Netflix<\/a> on 28 August. <\/p>\n

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Based on Richard Osman’s bestselling novel, the film follows a group of friends living in a retirement home as they set out to crack a cold case. Boasting a stellar cast, Brosnan stars alongside Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie in the murder mystery drama. <\/p>\n

Directed by Chris Columbus and produced by Steven Spielberg, the film’s central quartet are joined by Richard E Grant, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant and Naomi Ackie in supporting roles. <\/p>\n

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Megan is a freelance news reporter for Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giant, an upcoming biopic starring Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry, has released an official trailer. Based on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1380,106847,1331,77,3989,1330,3943,106846,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-285625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-af85d72f-4eb9-4c66-b246-b61e60a84806","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hasproduct-true","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-shorttitle-trailer-drops-for-pierce-brosnans-90s-set-biopic","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114903480417594577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}