Check Out The Trailer For Hands Of Stone

 

The Weinstein Company has today cast light on the latest trailer for Jonathan Jakubowicz’s sports biopic Hands of Stone, and it opens just as you would expect – sweeping crowds shots followed by a montage of two fighters preparing to step into the ring.

The press conferences, the intense workouts, the experienced coach it’s all there. But perhaps in an effort to spike interest in Hands of Stone, the snippet veers directly into R-rated territory, first introducing Roberto Durán (Édgar Ramirez) and Felicidad Iglesias (Ana de Armas) going at it like rabbits before shifting focus to the bedroom antics of Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher) and Juanita (Jurnee Smollett-Bell).

It’s a little abrupt, to say the least, and we’re worried today’s decidedly NSFW trailer is a last-ditch attempt from The Weinstein Company to fire Hands of Stone into the spotlight. Hopefully we’re way off base, though, and Jakubowicz’s account of the famed Panamanian icon proves to be a competent, well-rounded feature. Jonathan Jakubowicz’s own sports biopic Hands of Stone is on course to light up theaters on August 26.