A week ago only the most diehard film festival followers were looking out for The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to The Fountain, a drama about a wrestler whose glory days are long gone. But since the film took the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and debuted yesterday at the Toronto International Film Festival, it's a hot topic-- and now it will come to a theater near you.
Fox Searchlight announced today that they picked up the rights to the film, and scheduled it for release this December, smack dab in the middle of Oscar season, of course. Mickey Rourke stars in the movie as the titular Randy "The Ram" Robinson, with Marisa Tomei as a stripper who catches his eye and Evan Rachel Wood as his daughter.
I guess given how many movies have starred boxers, it's high time that pro wrestlers get their shot as well. Now the rest of the country will get to find out just how good a movie a wrestler can make when Aronofsky's latest debuts in December.
