Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton play the  battling Conlon brothers in director Gavin O’Connor’s forthcoming film Warriors. Hardy plays Tommy, an ex-Marine just back from Afghanistan and Edgerton plays Brendan, a schoolteacher with money problems. They’re both former MMA fighters and end up back in the ring (cage?) fighting each other for a championship. Nick Nolte plays the pair’s grizzled father who coaches Tommy.

Back in March, actress Jennifer Morrison (House) who also stars in the film as Edgerton’s wife, posted this teaser on her Facebook wall:

A couple of weeks ago we got the first trailer:

Now a new poster has dropped showing the two gorgeous specimens sans shirts. Edgerton comes off the best I think. (What is that? A 12 pack??) While Hardy’s tatts are delicious (and very real) his gorgeous mouth looks distorted, as if he’s wearing his mouth guard from the fight. (Trust me, I’ve made a study of this man’s lips.) What I like about both the trailer and the poster, aside from the obvious, is that we aren’t immediately sure who we’re supposed to be rooting for!

Warrior (finally!) opens 9 September 2011.

Photo courtesy of Lionsgate.