Flint Strong
Flint Strong is an upcoming American biographical sports film by Rachel Morrison in her feature directional debut. The film is based on T-Rex, a documentary about American professional boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields training for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ryan Destiny will star as the lead, alongside Judy Greer and Brian Tyree Henry. Development began in October 2016 with Barry Jenkins adapting the documentary for Universal Pictures. Morrison joined to direct in June 2019 with Michael De Luca, Elishia Holmes, Zackary Canepari, and Drea Cooper to produce alongside Jenkins.
Flint Strong is an upcoming American biographical sports film by Rachel Morrison in her feature directional debut. The film is based on T-Rex, a documentary about American professional boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields training for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ryan Destiny will star as the lead, alongside Judy Greer and Brian Tyree Henry.
Development began in October 2016 with Barry Jenkins adapting the documentary for Universal Pictures. Morrison joined to direct in June 2019 with Michael De Luca, Elishia Holmes, Zackary Canepari, and Drea Cooper to produce alongside Jenkins. Destiny was added in November, and Ice Cube and Greer were cast in early 2020. Filming began in March 2020, but then got halted two days later. It was scheduled to resume in June 2021. However, Cube left in October and Universal put the film in a turnaround. It was then picked up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in May 2022 with Henry and Oluniké Adeliyi joining the cast and filming resuming that month.
Flint Strong is scheduled to be released in theaters on August 9, 2024, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Plot
Claressa "T-Rex" Shields trains to box in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Cast
Ryan Destiny as Claressa "T-Rex" Shields
Judy Greer
Brian Tyree Henry as Jason Crutchfield
Oluniké Adeliyi as Jackie Shields
De'Adre Aziza as Mickey

Production
On October 7, 2016, Universal Pictures hired Barry Jenkins to adapt the documentary T-Rex with the possibility to direct the film. On June 19, 2019, Rachel Morrison was set to make her directorial debut on Flint Strong; Jenkins would produce with Michael De Luca and Elishia Holmes, while Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper, who worked on T-Rex would serve as executive producers.On November 13, 2019, Ryan Destiny was cast as Claressa "T-Rex" Shields. On February 5, 2020, Ice Cube was cast as Shields' coach, Jason Crutchfield. Judy Greer was added on May 14. However, on October 29, 2021, it was reported that Cube had left the project after refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19 to film Oh Hell No (now titled Stepdude) for Columbia Pictures, putting the film in turnaround.Principal photography began on March 11, 2020, but on March 13, production was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview with The Guardian, Shields stated that production was set to resume in June 2021. However, the project entered a long delay due to being offloaded by Universal. It would be picked up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and on May 25, 2022, Brian Tyree Henry joined the cast to replace Cube and Oluniké Adeliyi joined to play Shields' mother, with filming resuming later that month. On July 6, 2022, De'Adre Aziza joined the cast as Mickey, Crutchfield's wife.

Release
The film is scheduled for release on August 9, 2024.

See also
Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's middleweight
List of boxing films

References
External links
Flint Strong at IMDb