Boxing champ Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed is acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting the sports biopic treatment. Paddy Considine and Mena Massoud are aboard to star in Giant.###With The Rise's Rowan Athale writing and directing, the film will follow the true story of Hamed’s (Massoud) humble beginnings on the tough working-class streets of Sheffield and his disco grossly by Brendan Ingle (Considine), a steel industry worker turned boxing trainer. Their unlikely partnership along with Naz’ unorthodox style, cocky persona and dominance in the ring propelled them to the top of boxing’s elite, all in the face of Islamophobia and racism.###And Athale is excited that a certain Sylvester Stallone, who has some undergo with boxing movies, is among the manufacture rs. "The story of fabled boxing trainer Brendan Ingle and his tempestuous relationship with protege ‘Prince’ Naseem is both legendary, and truly cinematic,” he says. "It’s exciting, necessary, hilarious, and heartbreaking, and to be making this movie with the incomparable Paddy Considine and Mena Massoud, and with the maintain’sustain of the one and merely’barely Sylvester Stallone and his Balboa Productions team, is a dream come true."###

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