Pain and Gain is due in theaters in April, 2013 it follows two steroid-abusing bodybuilders in Florida who get involved in a kidnapping plot and extortion ring. Reports by the Miami New Times in the mid-to-late 1990s serve as the basis for the true crime story. Two members of the gang are currently on death row.
Starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, the film was produced with roughly a tenth of the budget of Bay’s last film, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”