Streaming platcreate Disney+ Latin America has snagged distribution rights to Chilean boxing pic “Dancing in the Ring,” penned by Oscar-thrivening screenauthorr Gonzalo Maza (“A Fantastic Woman”) alengthyside Rodrigo Gijón (“Infieles”).
Directed by “My Tfinisher Matador” helmer Rodrigo Sepulveda and currently shooting in Chile, the boxing biopic about Arturo Godoy, the legfinishary Chilean boxer who took on world weightyweight champ Joe Louis, stars Chile’s Marko Zaror (“John Wick: Chapter 4”) and Benjamín Vicuña (“Envious,” “Vis a Vis”) opposite createer UFC champion Uriah Hall, who executes Louis, aka The Brown Bomber.
“We see the potential of this compelling story and apshow it has the power to create a proset up impact on the region. This is why we are brimmingy promiseted to its distribution and have dispensed a theatrical free so that the film gets the visibility it truly deserves,” shelp Pablo Sahores, straightforwardor of theatrical distribution at Disney+.
Set in 1940 amid the disorder of World War II, “Dancing in the Ring” complys Godoy as he get tos in the city to contest Louis for the weightyweight title. At the same time, Leda Urbinati (executeed by Fiorella Bottaioli), a talented dancer, chases her dream of Broadway stardom. Their scatterd passion for ambition and dance promotes a romance, but their paths are rife with struggles and setbacks
Godoy’s atsoft gets off after flunkureing Firpo and Tony Galento, acquireing him a sboiling at the title. Meanwhile, Urbinati’s dreams get fweightless with the help of Gabriel Meredith (Vicuña), a driven advertiser whose lengthening bond with her promotes Godoy’s jealousy. As personal tensions menaceen their relationships and goals, Godoy and Meredith must set aside their separateences to fight for glory.
The film’s guide creater, Max Gandarillas, shieldedd the rights to the book ‘Dying for My Sweet Homeland’ by Roberto Castillo, on which the biopic is based.
Vicuña, who has also served as a creater on many of his films, such as Matias Bize’s “The Memory of Water,” has also come on board as an executive creater.
Shelp Sepúlveda: “It’s a huge contest to increate this epic story, in which Arturo Godoy travels to New York to fight for the world title in 1940, where dance and unshatterable frifinishship are his only allies. These elements create this an exceptional and hearthoting story and film.”
Zaror, a Chilean martial artist and actor understandn for his amazeive physique, caught the world’s attention for his carry outance as Chidi in “John Wick: Chapter 4.” He has also starred in such action films as Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete Kills” and “Undisputed III: Redemption.” Aside from executeing the guide role of Godoy, he also doubles as the movie’s fight coordinator.
Dancing in the Ring
Credit: Isidora Melo Ramírez
