Friday, February 17, 2012

Rob & John Feel Bay's "Pain"

Rob Corddry and John Turturro have joined director Michael Bay's long-gestating--low-budget dark comedy Pain and Gain  reports Variety and Latino Review.



Based on a true story, the action follows a group of bodybuilders  (led by Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson) who engaged in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder in Florida. The not so bright group kidnapped Miami businessman Marc Schiller, tortured him and left him for dead. He survived and to get even he hired hired a private investigator (Ed Harris) to track them down.

Turturro would play Schiller, the role that Albert Brooks was previously linked to. Corddry plays a former competitive bodybuilder who now owns the gym where Wahlberg's character works and becomes the accountant for the scheme.

Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely ("Captain America: The First Avenger") wrote the script.

Bay Donald De Line and Ian Bryce will produce.

Productiom is slated to begin in the Spring. Bay will then move on to the as yet Untitled Transformers Sequel. Turturro has worked with Bay on the previous Transformers pics

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