The Fight Machine — Uppercut

Playback reported on Hangar 18 Media’s latest feature, The Fight Machine — a bare-knuckle boxing adaptation directed by Andrew T. Hunt, with 9 Light Entertainment’s Pasha Patriki as lead producer.

February 24, 2020 · by Lauren Malyk

Penned by Craig Davidson alongside Hunt (Raven Banner managing partner), The Fight Machine adapts Davidson’s novel The Fighter — following two men trapped in very different lives who collide in the illegal world of bare-knuckle boxing. Greg Hovanessian (Midway) and Dempsey Bryk (The Birch) star.

The cast also includes Natasha Henstridge, Ted Atherton, Noah Danby, Michael Ironside, and Greg Bryk — playing the on-screen father to his real-life son Dempsey. Production wraps in mid-March, with shooting across Toronto, Parry Sound, and the Niagara region. Hangar 18 Media is Raven Banner’s joint venture with 9 Light Entertainment and post-production company Red Square Motion.

“Two men trapped in very different lives.”

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