Robert De Niro goes back into the ring in a new movie after Oscar-winning performance “Racing bull”

Robert De Niro goes back into the ring in a new boxing movie “Hands of Stone” which the Weinstein Co. plans to release later this year, arrives more than 35 years after De Niro famously Oscar-winning performance in “Raging Bull” a movie that he pushed for a then-struggling Martin Scorsese to direct. The film remains the belt-holder of boxing films, revered for its monochromic cinematography and dark, disturbed mystery.

De Niro, 72, who starred as Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 classic, plays trainer Ray Arcel in “Hands of Stone”, a biopic about one of the greatest Latino fighters of all time, Roberto Duran. The movie tells the story of the Panamanian brawler who took the WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980, only to shock the world by walking back to his corner in the rematch five months later saying, “No more”.

“Hands of Stone” is an upcoming American biographical sport film directed and written by Jonathan Jakubowicz. It stars Édgar Ramírez, Robert De Niro, Usher, Ellen Barkin and Ana de Armas. The film, scheduled to premiere at Cannes, will be invited as “out of competition” movies in “Sport Movies & Tv 2016” scheduled in Milano from 16 to 21 November.