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Pain and Gain is an upcoming movie directed by Michael Bay and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on an article published in 1998 by the New Miami Times.

The movie is centered in Adrian Doorbal (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), two bumbling bodybuilders who decide to kidnapp Marc Schiller (Tony Shalhoub), a Miami businessman, in order to use the ransom money to save their gym. The plan goes wrong, and Schiller discovers their identities. In order to silence him, they leave him to die, but Schiller recovers and plans to enact revenge against his captors.

The cast also includes Ed Harris as a detective hired by Schiller to capture Doorbal and Lugo; Rob Corddry as John Mese, a bodybuilder-turned-accountant who runs the gym and ends up being caught up in the duo's scheme; Anthony Mackie as Lugo's sensitive friend who becomes the unwitting third member of the gang; and Bar Paly as Lugo's girlfriend Sabina Petrescu, an illegal immigrant, ex-beauty queen and aspiring actress.

Pain and Gain is Bay's first non-action movie. With a budget of $20 million dollars, the movie will have no action, aside from one car crash, and is being marketed as a "dark comedy" in the same vein as Fargo and Pulp Fiction.

The movie is produced by Bay's Platinum Dunes and will be released in 2013.

I generally like Marky Mark and I generally like The Rock, and this kind of looks like a return for Michael Bay to his 90s hey day, could be good, but I'll reserve judgement for now.

^just glad he is back in action after his whole tooth fairy,game plan type movies

"...and is being marketed as a "dark comedy" in the same vein as Fargo and Pulp Fiction."

Talk about aiming high, eh Bay?

"...and is being marketed as a "dark comedy" in the same vein as Fargo and Pulp Fiction."

Talk about aiming high, eh Bay?

Pretty much

Frankly, such an interesting story could've been done by ANYONE else, why did it have to be Michael Bay is completely beyond me.

No fucking way this is as good Pulp Fiction or Fargo. But if this 1/4 as good as Burn After Reading, then it´s Bay´s magnus opus.


Honestly, if this brings the humor that permeated his old R-rated flicks, it´s a start.After that everything else is a bonus...

The only two things I ever laughed at in Bay's movies,

The 'radioshack' scene in Bad Boys 2.

Stanley Goodspeed introducing himself to Connery's character in The Rock.

If there is anything I like about any of Bay's films is the humor. Yeah, I know too much of it can be racist and just plain stupid. But for example, I think Armageddon would have worked far better as a comedy because when it's funny, it's hilarious. The only one of his flicks where the humor completely fell flat for me was in Revenge of the Fallen.

The humor in "Dark of the Moon" was just as bad.

Not really.

The scenes with Bruce trying to shoot Ben Affleck is nothing like Ken Jeong trapping Shia in a bathroom and all the gay jokes that ensued.