A spin-off series to one of the best movies in Tom Hardy’s repertoire is in the works, but, somewhat surprisingly, returning director Gavin O’Connor is fighting against the tide to find a streaming home for the project. Released back in 2011, Warrior
finds Tom Hardy
starring as former soldier-turned-MMA fighter Thomas “Tommy” Riordan Conlon, who finds himself up against his estranged brother, Joel Edgerton’s Brendan Conlon, after they both enter a winner-takes-all mixed martial arts tournament.
O’Connor, who directed and co-wrote the movie, has been working on a spin-off series for several years. And while there is surely an appetite for another hard-hitting MMA drama, the filmmaker has now revealed that he is struggling to get a studio on board. He explained in a recent conversation with THR…
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“When we set it up, it was at Paramount+. We wrote a script, and then, for whatever reason, they decided they wanted to go in a different direction. What happened is all unexplainable to me. But I had a script at this point, and it’s very representative of what the series is going to be. It introduces all the characters except for one.
HBO Max then said they wanted to do it, and so we pivoted to HBO Max. And then, for whatever reason, they decided they didn’t want to do it. They were going in a different direction. So I need to find a home, man. Excluding the movie Warrior, if there’s any project I’ve ever had that is so passionately alive in my bloodstream, it’s this TV series. So I’m hoping I find the right home for it.”
We Now Know What the ‘Warrior’ Spin-off Is All About
Alongside explaining his baffling battle to find a home for the Warrior series, which would be titled Warriors, O’Connor went on to reveal what the spin-off will be about. Much like the Tom Hardy-led predecessor, Warriors will center on four new fighters, two men and two women, all of whom are on “a collision course to fight each other at Sparta,” the same tournament from the movie.
“The DNA of the movie Warrior was two brothers on a collision course to fight each other in the Sparta tournament. So the series is called Warriors because we took that idea for two men and two women. They’re all fighters, but I hook you into their life fights outside of the cage. We’re going to explore their stories as they’re on a collision course to fight each other at Sparta. So that’s the idea, and I hope we can find a home, because I so believe in this show and what it could be. There’s nothing like it on television, so hopefully someone can see what I have in my head.”
While we await a more positive update regarding Warriors, Gavin O’Connor is currently promoting his action thriller sequel, The Accountant 2. Led by Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal as assassins and estranged brothers (a familiar theme in O’Connor’s work), The Accountant 2 was theatrically released on April 25, and a third movie is now in development.
Source: THR
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