Everyone loves a story about the underdog earning against all odds, and last year's Academy Award–winning 'The Fighter' fit the bill. The film triumphed above its own set of struggles, using Mark Wahlberg determined to see the undertaking through for years before the motion picture won Oscars for Best Promoting Actor (Christian Bale) and Best Assisting Actress (Melissa Leo) and made over $100 million worldwide at the container office. Now the actor is talking about possibly filming spherical two of the Micky Ward punching tale.
Wahlberg told Entertainment Weekly's Within Movies, I got bit from the bug, and now I'm looking to plant the idea in everybody's head that we should do — not five or six 'Fighter's like 'Rocky' — but one more because the big thing that Micky Ward was famous for has been his three epic battles with Arturo Gatti. So we're discussing possibly taking one more work at it.
Though the film had been met with critical popularity for its performances, many have been left wondering why overseer David O. Russell didn't add the legendary trilogy with Gatti (Ward's final battles), since the brutal series ended up being the most lucrative of Ward's occupation. A sequel gives Wahlberg the chance highlight this and expound about the friendship that matured between the two opponents till Gatti's strange death in 2009.
Simply no confirmation yet if Bale, Leo and also Adams will be joining Wahlberg for a achievable sequel. The actor's positive, nevertheless realistic, about its probabilities — telling EW, Yeah. Everybody experienced such an amazing experience producing the movie that I can't picture they wouldn't want to turn back. But it's still kind of the early stages.
Check out a few features from the Ward/Gatti showdown below, along with let us know what stipulations must be met for you to see a 'Fighter' sequel.
