Here’s When Giant Hits Streaming With Amir El Masry and Pierce Brosnan
Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan pack a punch in Giant, the true-life sports drama set to open the Red Sea Film Festival on December 4, 2025, after its 2025 BFI London Film Festival premiere — but a streaming date is still up in the air.
Pierce Brosnan, yes that Pierce Brosnan, looks nothing like Pierce Brosnan in 'Giant' — a biopic about British-Yemeni boxing star Prince Naseem 'Naz' Hamed that is lining up a proper festival-to-theaters rollout. It is also one of those passion projects that has quietly been in the works for ages and now suddenly has dates, footage, and a whole lot of buzz about the acting.
What the movie is actually about
Written and directed by Rowan Athale, 'Giant' tracks Hamed’s climb from a modest life in Sheffield to becoming a 1990s world champion and one of Britain’s most show-stopping boxing personalities. The emotional core is his knotty, ultimately defining relationship with his trainer, the Irish boxing guru Brendan Ingle.
Amir El-Masry (Egyptian-British, and very good at the whole chameleon thing) plays Naz. Brosnan plays Ingle — and his transformation is so complete that people are double-taking their screens. Sylvester Stallone is on board as an executive producer through Balboa Productions, which is a neat full-circle touch given, you know, Stallone and boxing.
"It has been my dream and ambition to bring 'Giant' to the cinema screen for many years," Athale has said, calling the story "hilarious, heartbreaking, and cinematically thrilling," and crediting the support of Stallone and Balboa Productions.
Brosnan, unrecognizable (and by design)
The official trailer leans into the mentor-protege bond, the Sheffield grit, and the showman swagger that made Naz a phenomenon. Brosnan disappears into Ingle — voice, posture, the whole thing — and early chatter is that this might be the most transformative performance of his career. Expect plenty of conversation about mentorship, discipline, and the messy, human stuff behind the highlight reels.
Release plan (because you asked)
- Premiere: 2025 BFI London Film Festival
- Festival spotlight: Opening night of the Red Sea Film Festival on December 4, 2025
- UK theatrical: January 9, 2026
- US release: 2026, distributed by Vertical
- Streaming: not announced yet
If you grew up watching Naz flip into the ring and detonate fights with one punch, this is already on your list. If you didn’t, the story still plays: a scrappy rise, a complicated mentor, and a star who knew exactly how to work a crowd — in and out of the ropes.