Sundance: HBO Closes Remake Deal For Irish Brawl Doc 'Knuckle' With Rough House Partners

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is close to an agreement remake rights Knuckle Ian Palmer directed documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival about two Irish families who settled a long dispute regularly participate in bare knuckle fighting. Rough House Pictures partner Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green is attached, and HBO transform the concept into a television series, I hear. Many parts of the circle - the word is that they included companies Gerard Butler, Robert Downey Jr. and Vin Diesel, but Rough House Matt Reilly came to Sundance and won by knockout. Rough House produces Eastbound & Down on HBO.

For two weeks, interest has been high for the rights to remake a film that premiered at Sundance on Friday. After an unfinished version of bootlegs has begun to turn, supports AAC copies to interested suitors. The documentary was produced by the rise Films Teddy Leifer, fighters clash and beat each other bloody pulp with family pride and Victor win bragging rights. It is unclear why families there is evidence that hatred has to do with a dispute over a woman, but the battles are preceded by teasing videos uploaded occupied by one family to another. The film took 12 years for the film, and focuses on two brothers, James Quinn and Michael McDonagh.

The internal distribution of the film is still in development. International content has bought the international rights at the beginning of the festival.