Just in case two hours and nine minutes, the run time of Pain & Gain, wasn’t long enough to sate your hunger for a beefed-up Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg going ape on the beaches of Florida, you might have weekly installments of the delicacy now: Entertainment Weekly reports that The Rock is set to produce and headline a new pilot for HBO, which centers on retired athletes living in Miami. Network mainstay Wahlberg is on board to executive produce.
We don’t know much more about the project yet, save for the fact that it will take the form of a half-hour dramedy and also involve the creative forces of Stephen Levinson, who has worked on Entourage, In Treatment, and Boardwalk Empire.
The thematic similarities to Pain & Gain are hard to ignore, although it will be a surprise if the series treads close to the extremes of Michael Bay’s black comedy. Unless we’re meant to expect a week-to-week episodic romp of Johnson trying, and failing, to kill an endless assortment of Sunshine State millionaires. Hey, it’d be better than Entourage.
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