On the heels of his 2021 film The Grand Duke of Corsica, UK-based Australian director Daniel Graham is back with the highly anticipated, Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher.
Based on the 19th Century boxer, who became the world’s youngest boxing champion, the film stars Matt Hookings as the prize-fighter, as he is guided by trainer Bill Warr (Ray Winstone) and raised by his grandfather Jack Slack (Russell Crowe).
FilmInk caught up with Graham to talk about the challenges of making his latest and what’s ahead.
How did Prizefighter begin? it’s quite different to your previous two films.
“When I came back from Mexico finishing Opus Zero, I started to contact producers in England to work together on projects. And one of the few who answered was Matt Hookings from Camelot films. We’re talking early 2017, so actually almost five and a bit years ago. What happened then