Kathryn Morris UK

Resurrecting The Champ On US Blu-ray

A quick reminder.

Two weeks later than we originally thought/reported, tomorrow (25th June) is the day that Resurrecting The Champ will be be released on Blu-ray. This is in the US market.

You’d think it is was out for the count by now but it has come out punching. See what I did there? Getting all clever with the boxing references.

You can pick up a copy of the Rod Lurie’s movie starring Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Alan Alda, Teri Hatcher on Amazon US HERE.

Resurrecting Resurrecting The Champ: Out Of The Blu… ray

File this one under: Really? This wasn’t a thing already?

News has reached KM UK that the 2007 film Resurrecting The Champ is set for a Blu-ray release in America this coming June.

Some parts of the world, notably Germany, had a Blu-ray version of the movie years ago but it appears that wasn’t the case back home in the US. Now, a release as part of the MVD Marquee Collection is set for June 11th.

The hi-def home viewing solution includes some extras but they don’t look like anything new and are all in standard definition so must be lifted from the earlier DVD release.

For new comers, Resurrecting The Champ revolves around Josh Hartnett and Samuel L Jackson’s characters. Josh is a newspaper sports reporter looking for a big story to make his name. Samuel is a homeless man Josh stumbles across who claims to be a once-famous boxer with a tale to tell. His he who he says he is? It’s a film with boxing but is definitely not a boxing movie.

Kathryn is one of the many big names making up the supporting cast. Director Rod Lurie has a habit of doing this with his films. As Josh’s older, more successful writer, mother to his son, and estranged wife, Kathryn is the grown up in the relationship. She’s also gorgeous in every shot. A quadruple (or more) threat. She has some great scenes with Josh. Well worth checking in full HD.

There are various images and videos relating to Resurrecting The Champ already in KM UK The Gallery. The Blu-ray box cover, above, has now been added.

Kathryn In Extended Resurrecting The Champ Interview

It’s 10 years ago this month that the film Resurrecting The Champ was first released in cinemas in selected parts of the world. Most of the rest of the world didn’t get to see it for months, or even years, later.

Ten years! That’s crazy!

RTC is about a struggling newspaper sports reporter (Josh Hartnett as Erik Kernan) looking for a story that will make his name. He then stumbles upon a homeless man (Samuel L Jackson only referred to as ‘Champ’) as who claims to be a long-thought dead boxing legend. Kathryn (you know, from Cold Case) plays Joyce Kernan, wife of Erik. She’s a successful journalist working at the same newspaper and mother to his child. Joyce is a few years older than Erik, which appears to be the cause of some issues for him.

Kathryn’s role in the film is relatively small but, as is often the case, it is crucial to the development of lead character as the story progresses

2007 puts us before Josh found his Penny, Dreadful or otherwise and Samuel L was yet to become the Marvel character Nick Fury in a 1001 projects. Or star in an unrelated film called Fury (aka The Samaritan). Dakota Goyo, the actor who played the Kernan’s son and the lucky so-and-so that got a red carpet hug from Kathryn at the première :-x, was 8 at the time. Since then he’s starred as the son of Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lilly in the robot fighting movie Real Steel, and sort of crossed paths with SLJ again as he was the young Thor in the first of that branch of the Marvel universe.

But enough of the ‘where are they now’. Today I’ve added an extended video interview Kathryn did for promotional material to the KM UK Gallery. A shorter section had been posted before. It is her answers to a series of questions describing Joyce and her role in the plot. Broadcasters often use segments of these videos when reviewing films.

As we’ve come to expect from Kathryn she gives detailed explanations in simple terms and has clearly worked hard to understand her character. Working previously with director Rod Lurie (Deterrence and The Contender), who once suggested Kathryn was his muse, most have helped with that getting that deeper knowledge.

What Would You Say?

Inspired by last week’s posting of about an interview and chat with Kathryn, I was wondering what would you say?

As a quick reminder: reporting for the Pass The Remote website back in 2007, LillyKat attended a special screening of Resurrecting The Champ. After showing the film there was a Q&A session with several key people, including Kathryn, from the project. LillyKat was able to ask Kathryn some questions about the film, the character she played and her return to the big screen.

After the after LillyKat was got a chance to talk one-on-one with Kathryn and ask her some more questions. You can read the two-part article LillyKat wrote about the experience starting HERE.

If you were in the same two situations what would you ask Kathryn? Is there a question you have about Resurrecting The Champ or Kathryn’s character Joyce? Can you think of a way that you would explore those points further in a later one-on-one? Perhaps this would give you a chance to talk more about Kathryn’s wider body of work. Remember that this is 2007 so season 5 of Cold Case is just about to start airing, and Cougars, Inc. or Moneyball do not exist yet.

Please leave your ideas in the comments below, mentioning whether each question would fit in to the Q&A or the 1-on-1. Let’s keep the understandable fan-boy/girl gushing to a minimum and treat it like you are a proper reporter preparing an article for a newspaper or website.

Who knows, maybe one day we’ll be able to put some of your questions to Kathryn herself.

Resurrecting The Champ Screening With Kathryn

During my time on the Look Again Cold Case fan board I met a lot of fellow fans of Kathryn. A lot of them were kind enough to visit me here at KM UK and help get it off to a good start. Many of the ‘old band’ still drop by on a regular basis. Hello there, it would be great to hear from you again.

I made some good friends there too. One I count myself very lucky to have is the person everyone knows, including me, only as LillyKat.

LillyKat was Senior Staff Writer at the now sadly defunct TV review blog Pass The Remote (PTR). For five years LillyKat, along with the site owner TVFan, wrote wonderful reviews of their favourite shows. Shows like Damages, Fringe, Ice Road Truckers, Psych, Saving Grace, and of course Cold Case.

For much of this year here on KM UK we’ve been looking back at events that Kathryn attended in 2007. We’ve had new photos from fund raisers, premières, promotional events, award shows and festivals. After an absence of a few months today we go back to 2007 with a little help from LillyKat.

Mid-August 2007, just over a week before the official première of the movie Resurrecting The Champ, a special screening was held in Los Angeles. Amongst the attendees was a certain Kathryn Morris and the film’s director Rod Lurie. And LillyKat.

There was a post-screening Q&A session in which the intrepid reporter asked a few questions and she even managed a quick one-on-one with Kathryn afterwards. The event formed the basis of two articles on PTR: the first a write-up of the whole evening, the second a review of the film.

LillyKat has very kindly allowed KM UK to reproduce in full the two pieces and host her accompanying photos in our Gallery. Frankly, she owes me a few favours so there wasn’t much arm twisting involved