Pain & Gain is an upcoming action film written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and directed by Michael Bay.

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The film is based on a 1999 series of Miami New Times articles by investigative journalist Pete Collins about «a couple of Florida steroid-abusing knucklehead bodybuilders who become criminals involved in an extortion ring and a kidnapping plot that goes horribly wrong." The film is scheduled for a release date of April 26, 2013.

Two members of the «Sun Gym Gang," Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal received death sentences in Florida and sit on Florida's death row.

Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) is a regular bodybuilder who works at the Sun Gym along with his friend Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie). Sick of living the poor life Lugo concocts a plan to kidnap Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub), a regular at the gym and a rich spoiled business man, and extort him by means of torture. With the help of recently released criminal Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson), the 'Sun Gym Gang' successfully get Kershaw to sign over all his finances, but when Kershaw survives an attempted murder from the gang, he hires Detective Ed Du Bois (Ed Harris) to catch the criminals after the Miami Police Department fail to do so.

The film was first announced by Bay after the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in which Bay stated he wanted to do the film between the second and third Transformers movies. However, the project was put on hold when Paramount gave the third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon a 2011 release date.

On February 13, 2012, it was confirmed that the budget for the film would be funded by Paramount Pictures as part of a two-picture deal with Michael Bay and the budget would be $25 million (making it the cheapest Michael Bay film since his first feature Bad Boys) thanks in part to Bay, Johnson and Wahlberg not taking salaries they are instead signing on in exchange for back ends on the film's profits. Bay later confirmed that pr..