jimbosmith316
MuscleChemistry
I think both series will be a great watch!
Just the other day, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s long-awaited Pump finally seemed to move forward with an exploration of bodybuilding culture’s origins, but will cultural successor Dwayne Johnson beat him to the punch? The Rock has his own Muscle Beach drama greenlit at USA, and there’s bound to be some overlap.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, and Johnson’s own Instagram, the Ballers and Furious star has officially sold the ‘80s-set one-hour scripted Muscle Beach to USA, set to follow “a legendary bodybuilding gym in 1980s Venice Beach where a colorful tribe of lost souls struggle to reinvent themselves by bench-pressing their way to a bigger, better American dream.”
Amusingly, Schwarzenegger’s Pump covers near of the exact same concept, right down to the humble Venice Beach setting, albeit in 1973, instead of the ‘80s. That version follows “a small group of who bodybuilders birthed the physical fitness industry and body worship, in the Pacific Avenue beachfront gym that was their temple.”
No word yet if either series would potentially back off the other, or if bodybuilder dramas represent the next vampire/zombie craze, but who might have the … ahem, stronger take on bodybuilder culture in California?
Just the other day, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s long-awaited Pump finally seemed to move forward with an exploration of bodybuilding culture’s origins, but will cultural successor Dwayne Johnson beat him to the punch? The Rock has his own Muscle Beach drama greenlit at USA, and there’s bound to be some overlap.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, and Johnson’s own Instagram, the Ballers and Furious star has officially sold the ‘80s-set one-hour scripted Muscle Beach to USA, set to follow “a legendary bodybuilding gym in 1980s Venice Beach where a colorful tribe of lost souls struggle to reinvent themselves by bench-pressing their way to a bigger, better American dream.”
Amusingly, Schwarzenegger’s Pump covers near of the exact same concept, right down to the humble Venice Beach setting, albeit in 1973, instead of the ‘80s. That version follows “a small group of who bodybuilders birthed the physical fitness industry and body worship, in the Pacific Avenue beachfront gym that was their temple.”
No word yet if either series would potentially back off the other, or if bodybuilder dramas represent the next vampire/zombie craze, but who might have the … ahem, stronger take on bodybuilder culture in California?
