It Bleeds It Leads

Hollywood couple, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber as well as Christina Hendricks are set to star in the boxing drama "The Bleeder" reports Variety.

The film is based on the true story of former New Jersey heavyweight boxer and womanizer Chuck Wepner who boxed 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali and inspired Sylvester Stallone to write "Rocky."

Jeff Feuerzeig who won the 2005 Sundance Film Festival documentary directing award for ‘The Devil and Daniel Johnston’.will helm the biopic from a script he co-wrote with Jerry Stahl.

 Mike Tollin and Carl Hampe are producing.

Here's the final round of Ali vs Wepner



The project is being shopped at Cannes