HBO, kabeltevenätverket som står bakom många av de senaste årens mest hyllade tv-serier (i komedifacket finns bland annat Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm och Eastbound & Down) har en komediserie om kroppsbyggning kallad ’Muscle’ under utveckling. Serien baseras på en kultförklarad memoar som släpptes för tjugo år sedan.
Deadline.com rapporterade nyss:
HBO has put in development Muscle, a single-camera comedy from Blue Valentine co-writer/director Derek Cianfrance about the subculture of contemporary professional bodybuilding. It is based on Sam Fussell’s memoir Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, which chronicles his four-year stint as a full-time bodybuilder after graduating from Oxford.
Fussell kommer att skriva manus för tv-serien utifrån sin bok tillsammans med regissören Cianfrance. En tidig synopsis från indieproduktionsbolaget Hunting Lane Films:
At age 26, scrawny, Oxford-educated Samuel Fussell entered a YMCA gym in New York to escape the terrors of big city life. Four years and 80 lbs. of firm, bulging muscle later, he was competing for bodybuilding titles in the ”Iron Mecca” of Southern California-so weak from intense training and starvation he could barely walk.
MUSCLE is the harrowing, often hilarious chronicle of Fussell’s divine obsession, his search for identity in a bizarre, eccentric world of ”health fascists,” ”gym bunnies” and ”muscleheads”-and his devout, single-minded acceptance of illness, pain, nausea, and steroid-induced rage in his quest for the holy grail of physical perfection.
Regissören Derek Cianfrance har även gjort en dokumentär om Cagefigthing, ett kort videoutdrag kan ses på Vimeo.
