Muscle Beach

**Curt James** · 09-08-2016, 04:38 AM

Anyone know if the Rock's Muscle Beach is still a go? More importantly, is this something you would actually watch?

SEVEN BUCKS PRODUCTIONS TO DEVELOP USA NETWORK’S MUSCLE BEACH

July 20, 2016

Seven Bucks Productions and and Beau Flynn’s Flynn Picture Company are developing a 1-hour TV drama series titled “Muscle Beach” in partnership with USA Network.

The series is set in a legendary bodybuilding gym in ’80s Venice Beach where a colorful tribe of lost souls struggle to reinvent themselves by bench-pressing their way to a bigger, better American dream, no matter what the cost. The series explores the body-obsessed fitness movement that took the nation by storm at the time of the super-sized Reagan ’80s, the excess of the era and the many temptations of Los Angeles will expose the dark side of chasing dreams.

The script is penned by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, who will also serve as exec producers.

Source: Seven Bucks Productions Facebook page

Note: "From having $7 in his pocket in 1995, to becoming the #1 Highest-Paid Actor in the world (twice!), Dwayne (snip)"

**cook** · 09-08-2016, 06:18 AM

I would rather see a story of bodybuilding in the early sixties from muscle beach till when it was shut down and the guys moved to "the dungeon" that Dave Draper speaks of.

**Puma** · 09-08-2016, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by cook

I would rather see a story of bodybuilding in the early sixties from muscle beach till when it was shut down and the guys moved to "the dungeon" that Dave Draper speaks of.

That would be interesting. My vote would go towards a bio movie on Joe Gold picking up on his opening the original Gold's Gym and ending with opening up World's.

Another idea would be a Biggest Loser style show with 8 people in contest prep. Maybe filmed time lapsed for half the episodes for more dramatic physique changes then we pick it up to real time for the last 2 or 3 episodes.

**Joe Pietaro** · 09-08-2016, 06:40 PM

I would love to watch a TV show based on bodybuilding but not sure how far of a reach it would get. Reading over that synopsis Curt posted, even as a bodybuilding fan, I find that dull as fuck. Unless there's a plethora of T&A, no one would even put a dime into filming it.