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EXCLUSIVE: A24‘s Dwayne Johnson-starring and Benny Safdie-directed The Smashing Machine, about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, has set a theatrical launch date of October 3, 2025.
The information comes within the wake of Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael seeking to vacate that date because it mulls a two-part launch technique. The Smashing Machine now pushes its means onto a weekend in opposition to Paramount’s Derek Cianfrance-directed Roofman starring Channing Tatum, and Neon’s subsequent Oz Perkins horror movie The Keeper. That’s the fairly the auteur brawl.
Safdie additionally wrote and produced Smashing Machine, which options Johnson’s The Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt.
Pic follows Kerr (Johnson) from the no-holds-barred period of the UFC on the peak of his profession as he questions himself and struggles with life and his relationships. In the meantime, Mark’s girlfriend Daybreak Staples (Blunt) struggles as effectively to seek out her place in Mark’s chaotic and contradictory world.
Producers embody Safdie by way of his Out for the Rely banner, and Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia for Seven Bucks Productions. David Koplan and Eli Bush are additionally producers.
Kerr was a two-time UFC Heavyweight Event Champion, World Vale Tudo Championship event winner, a Delight FC heavyweight champion, 1992 NCAA nationwide wrestling champion, 1994 Nationwide Freestyle Champion and 4x ADCC World Submission Champion. In 2003, he was the topic of an HBO documentary titled The Smashing Machine which detailed his MMA profession preventing in Vale Tudo, the UFC and Delight.