Pain & Gain
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In 2000 Miami investigative journalist Pete Collins wrotePain & Gain, an upcoming black comedy
film
adapted by Christopher Markus
and Stephen McFeely
and directed by Michael Bay
. The film is based on an article in the Miami New Times about "a couple of Florida steroid-abusing knucklehead bodybuilders who become criminals involved in an extortion ring and a kidnapping plot that goes horribly awry."
The film was first announced by Bay after the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
in which Bay stated he wanted to do the film between the second and third Transformers movies. However, the project was put on hold when Paramount gave the third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon a 2011 release date.
While doing press for Dark of The Moon, Bay said that Pain & Gain would be his next project and that it would have a budget of $20 million, making it the director's smallest budgeted film since his first movie, Bad Boys
.
Black comedy
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
adapted by Christopher Markus
Christopher Markus
Christopher Markus is an American screenwriter who frequently collaborates with Stephen McFeely.-Filmography:*The Life and Death of Peter Sellers *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe *You Kill Me...
and Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter who frequently collaborates with Christopher Markus.-Filmography:*The Life and Death of Peter Sellers *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe *You Kill Me...
and directed by Michael Bay
Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing high-budget action films characterized by their fast edits, stylistic visuals and substantial practical special effects...
. The film is based on an article in the Miami New Times about "a couple of Florida steroid-abusing knucklehead bodybuilders who become criminals involved in an extortion ring and a kidnapping plot that goes horribly awry."
The film was first announced by Bay after the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...
in which Bay stated he wanted to do the film between the second and third Transformers movies. However, the project was put on hold when Paramount gave the third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon a 2011 release date.
While doing press for Dark of The Moon, Bay said that Pain & Gain would be his next project and that it would have a budget of $20 million, making it the director's smallest budgeted film since his first movie, Bad Boys
Bad Boys (1995 film)
Bad Boys is a 1995 American action comedy film directed by Michael Bay in his directorial debut, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer...
.