Liev Schreiber Set to Star in THE BLEEDER Film

According to IMDB, stage and screen star Liev Schreiber is set to play boxing legend Chuck Wepner in 'The Bleeder.' Schreiber will star alongside Christina Hendricks and Naiomi Watts.

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Schreiber played the title role in Hamlet in a December 1999 revival at The Public Theater, and 2006, he played the title role in Macbeth opposite Jennifer Ehle at the Delacorte Theater. In 2005, Schreiber won a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor for his performance in the play Glengarry Glen Ross. In 2010, he returned to Broadway in A View from the Bridge for which he received a Tony nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Play.

Charles "Chuck" Wepner is a former heavyweight boxer from Bayonne, New Jersey. As an obscure boxer he went 15 rounds with world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a 1975 fight. Wepner is credited as the inspiration for Rocky Balboa. 

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