Hamill: The Movie Teaser Trailer

by KahilBS_Marshal on Jun 17, 2010 7:48 PM EDT

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Trailer for the upcoming film based on the life of deaf UFC fighter Matt Hamill:

Hamill is a sports drama depicting the struggles and successes Matt faces on the way to becoming a champion. Raised among those with the ability to hear, Matt later finds himself no less an outsider amidst the Deaf Community. Through sheer determination, he uses his perceived disability as an asset, and becomes both the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Championship and an inspirational force to the hearing and deaf alike.

Directed by Oren Kaplan. Starring Rusell Harvard, Shoshannah Stern and Rich "Ace" Franklin; the two leads are both deaf actors. It's supposed to be out in 2010.

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I’ll watch it

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by Noah'sArk on Jun 17, 2010 5:53 PM EDT reply actions

Really looking forward to this movie

by Steve4192 on Jun 17, 2010 7:34 PM EDT reply actions

Jim Carrey is making a comeback in the role of Purdue Wrestling Coach

by Snatchl on Jun 17, 2010 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions

Forgot about this project

legitimately interested in it, which is something I’ve never said about any movie involving mixed martial artists in any way, or any movie involving mixed martial arts for that matter.

Wondering if he’s gonna walk around saying “WOOOOOOOOO!” for two hours…..

by Electro Boy on Jun 17, 2010 7:46 PM EDT reply actions

Wiw, I didn’t know about this thing, what a good idea… Not only for Matt, but also for the sport aswell.

by SkeezinSteevin on Jun 17, 2010 7:57 PM EDT reply actions

lol wiw = WOW

by SkeezinSteevin on Jun 17, 2010 7:57 PM EDT reply actions

lol at Rich Franklin just standing there shaking his head, I wonder what he was thinking about? Cyborg Solider or whatever the hell that movie was called?

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by "Mr. NC-17" on Jun 17, 2010 8:01 PM EDT reply actions

There isn’t a more worthy story to make a movie about. Is there a book?

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by BadB on Jun 17, 2010 8:06 PM EDT reply actions

I’d bet 90% of this movie is sentimental horseshit pulled out of thin air, tacked on to the general timeline of Hamill’s life.

by judonerd on Jun 17, 2010 8:10 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

If they got the Rock to do an inspirational speech in American Sign Language, complete with all his neck/head/eyebrow twitches……..I’d watch it.

by Electro Boy on Jun 17, 2010 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Exactly

did he really lay in a fountain in a tuxedo, that shit better not have been a rental.

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by Fake Emcee on Jun 18, 2010 12:37 AM EDT up reply actions

Agreed. I don’t think it looks good at all, to be honest. Is this straight-to-DVD?

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by Leland Roling on Jun 18, 2010 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Hmm… wouldn’t Fitch have been more appropriate as a Purdue wrestling coach?

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by Ominous on Jun 17, 2010 8:14 PM EDT reply actions

No one wants to watch Fitch lay and pray his way through this movie. Listen to what I say.

by Electro Boy on Jun 17, 2010 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Rich is playing his high school wrestling coach, not his coach at Purdue.

by Steve4192 on Jun 17, 2010 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions

So who will play Rich body-kicking Matt into oblivion?

by bigweeze on Jun 18, 2010 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions

Jim Carey.

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by fedorade on Jun 18, 2010 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions

As I recall, the movie is mostly about his childhood and collegiate/international wrestling career. His arrival in the UFC is a very small part of the film and comes at the tail end.

by Steve4192 on Jun 18, 2010 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Perhaps not the most inspirational material

by bigweeze on Jun 19, 2010 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe I should go down by the bay with some hay. I just may. Whaddaya say?

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by Derek Suboticki on Jun 17, 2010 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Because Fitch would certainly be a more interesting and charismatic actor than Franklin.

Also, Rich is in it because him and Hamill used to train together and are supposedly good friends, not because they needed an MMA fighter cameo.

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by lowellthehammer on Jun 17, 2010 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions

I have asthma and still play sports....

same kind of thing, right? I want a movie deal….

by MauiPimpin on Jun 17, 2010 8:18 PM EDT reply actions

Were you a national champion wrestler?

Matt Hamill was a 3x NCAA Div. III National Champion at the Rochester Institute of Technology besides being the first deaf fighter to compete in the UFC. Have you done anything close to that?

by KahilBS_Marshal on Jun 17, 2010 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions

I once won a father-son egg toss at my dad's company picnic.

I boned three different chicks in one day when I was in high school. You’re just arguing semantics now…..

by MauiPimpin on Jun 17, 2010 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs

father-son egg toss champs AND a triple-header in HS!?

Id watch that movie..

by woodson28 on Jun 17, 2010 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions

See?

Thanks bro. If I ever get the funding it’ll surely be worth it.

by MauiPimpin on Jun 17, 2010 9:20 PM EDT up reply actions

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by H8ff0000 on Jun 18, 2010 1:44 AM EDT up reply actions

Amateur porn

with a touch of incest/homo erotica? You should be funding it…

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by achengy on Jun 18, 2010 2:01 AM EDT up reply actions

MauiPimpin

you should go to bed tonight knowing that you’re awesome! That made me LMAO good

by GetItOn on Jun 18, 2010 4:54 AM EDT up reply actions

No…it’s really not the same kind of deal at all.

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by Its Bacon on Jun 17, 2010 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions

But it's kinda close.....agree to disagree I suppose...

by MauiPimpin on Jun 17, 2010 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions

I got the joke, not sure about the rest of these guys. lol

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by Kaleb Kelchner on Jun 17, 2010 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions

I often forget that internet=serious business.

by MauiPimpin on Jun 17, 2010 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

….HAHAHAH! I love this picture.

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by Kaleb Kelchner on Jun 18, 2010 3:52 AM EDT up reply actions

Looks kinda corny but thats Hollywood. But cause I have the utmost respect for this guy, I’m all in

by Krimson on Jun 17, 2010 8:26 PM EDT reply actions

Didn’t see the trailer (mobile) but %100 agreed. Utmost respect for Hamill.

by seanerk88 on Jun 21, 2010 1:17 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

There's something weird about actors playing people who are still alive and young.

It just looks odd.

by Trysdor on Jun 17, 2010 8:31 PM EDT reply actions

The actor playing him makes me thinks this is the Kaycey Uscola story

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by Matthew Roth on Jun 17, 2010 8:36 PM EDT reply actions

lol

I thought it was the gay dude from Greys Anatomy for a second

by MauiPimpin on Jun 17, 2010 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions

There's no pack of dogs.

Can’t be his.

by Jonathan. on Jun 17, 2010 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions

sorry guys but this........

just looks horrible. Dont get me wrong, Hamills story is great and I am really happy for him but I just see no need for a movie about him at this point. Now the guy with no arms or legs that wrestled and had a MMA fight….. thats a fucking movie!

by b2tharad on Jun 17, 2010 9:37 PM EDT reply actions

I like that the actor playing Hamill is deaf.

I wonder how close the movie will be to his real life?

by J_Maddux on Jun 17, 2010 9:40 PM EDT reply actions

Ending

Is the movie gonna end with him getting his ass handed to him by Jon Jones? or will that only be released in the director’s cut?

by DCJon. on Jun 17, 2010 10:51 PM EDT reply actions

Deleted scene.

by GetYourHeadStomps on Jun 17, 2010 11:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Alternate Ending

you know, since he won the fight.

by seanerk88 on Jun 21, 2010 1:19 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

I’m pretty sure the movie is primarily about childhood through his collegiate wrestling career. His MMA career is a very small part of the film.

by Steve4192 on Jun 17, 2010 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions

It should end with him either getting robbed in the Bisping fight,or kicking Munoz into a living death and jumping about like he just won the Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes.

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by Brian Mayes on Jun 18, 2010 12:25 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs