Ben Foster To Star In Barry Levinson's HARRY HAFT

BRON Studios and New Mandate Films will produce HARRY HAFT, in association with Creative Wealth Media which is financing the film.

HARRY HAFT is a drama to be directed and produced by Oscar-winner BARRY Levinson from a screenplay by Justine Juel Gillmer, based on the novel 'Harry Haft: SURVIVOR of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano' by Alan Scott Haft.

Award-winning actor Ben Foster will star.

Based on a true story, the film is set post-World War II and will star Ben Foster as HARRY Haft, a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.

HARRY HAFT will be produced by New Mandate Film's Matti Leshem (The Shallows), BRON's Aaron L. Gilbert (The Front Runner, Tully, The Birth of a Nation), Jason Sosnoff (Paterno, The Wizard of Lies), BARRY Levinson and Scott Pardo (Hope & A Little Sugar). Creative Wealth Media's Jason Cloth (A Simple Favor, The Front Runner, Fences) is executive producer.

Foster appeared this year in the highly acclaimed BRON production Leave No Trace, directed by Debra Granik, for which he received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Actor. His other credits include: Hell or High Water, The Program, The Messenger, and Lone Survivor. He won the 2017 Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor for Hell or High Water and also received a Broadcast Film Critic's Association (BFCA) Nomination for Best Supporting Actor for the role. One of Foster's first roles was in Levinson's 1999 Liberty Heights. He is represented by UTA.

Levinson won the Oscar for Rain Man. His other credits include Paterno, Wizard of Lies, Bugsy, Wag the Dog and Diner. Gillmer's credits include the TV series "The 100" and "The Deep." Levinson and Gillmer are represented by WME.

BRON is currently in production on the dramatic-comedy Untitled Charles Randolph Project, directed by Jay Roach, starring Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman, John Lithgow, Alison Janney, and Malcom McDowell. BRON's The Front Runner, directed by Jason Reitman and starring Hugh Jackman, will be released via Sony on November 6.

Endeavor Content are representing the picture with BRON.

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