With the new boxing movie Hands of Stone, starring Robert De Niro as real-life boxing coach Ray Arcel, writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz knew he had one heavy burden on his hands... how to avoid the inevitable comparisons to one of the most famous boxing movies ever made also starring De Niro: Raging Bull

In the below clip, go behind the scenes of the movie, which chronicles legendary Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran's (Edgar Ramirez) rise to fame with Arcel's help and find out if and how Jakubowicz and De Niro solved their "heavy burden." 

Hands of Stone is in theaters Thursday.