Cannes 2012: Raven Banner Options 'The Fighter' for Feature

6:09 AM PDT 5/15/2012 by Etan Vlessing

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As Jacques Audiard's "Rust & Bone," based on a Craig Davidson fiction collection, bows in Cannes, the Canadian sales company plans turn Davidson's second novel into a theatrical movie.

TORONTO - As Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone, adapted from the Craig Davidson-penned short story collection, debuts in Cannes, Canadian sales company Raven Banner Entertainment has optioned the Craig Davidson novel The Fighter for another movie adaptation.

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Davidson and Andrew Thomas Hunt will turn The Fighter into a feature, to be renamed The Fight Machine, with Hunt to direct.

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The Fight Machine explores the world of illegal bare-knuckle brawling through the lives of two young men.

“Andrew’s passion for the novel combined with his hard boiled filmmaking made this a no brainer for me. I look forward to working with him,” Davidson said of the page-to-screen collaboration.

Sony Pictures Classics acquired the North American, Latin American and Eastern European rights to Audiard's Rust & Bone, which stars Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenarts.