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The 2013 action-comedy,Pain & Gain,saw a truckload of talent come together to bring real-life events to the big screen. Directed by Michael Bay, the film has Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, and Anthony Mackie in the lead roles as part of the Sun Gym gang.
However, while Michael Bay is usually known for coming out with high-budget films,Pain & Gainwas different. AfterBad Boys, Pain & Gainis the lowest-budget film of Michael Bay’s colorful career. to keep the budget at a minimum, the lead actors of the film had to make do with extreme pay cuts from their respective cheques in order to successfully make the film, which they did.
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Michael Bay Lowered the Pay forPain & GainActors
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Dwayne Johnson,Mark Wahlberg, andAnthony Mackieare some of the biggest actors in Hollywood. Therefore, they bring in chunky paychecks with each of their gigs. However, to makePain & Gainachievable with the low budget thatMichael Bayhad, each of them took a huge pay cut.
Bay stated that the film was just him, his actors, and just pure acting with no visual effects. He looked at the budget problem as a challenge to overcome and that’s exactly what he did.
“It was just me with the camera, actors acting, and really no visual effects. It was fun. It was good to be constrained in that box. I don’t think the movie needed anything more.”
The budget for the film went just over $25 million and the movie made $86.2 million at the box office, bringing in a profit of about $60 million. Unfortunately, though, the real-life victim of the Sun Gym gang, Marc Schiller, filed a lawsuit against his portrayal in the film. Schiller stated that the film showed him as“unlikeable”and“sleazy”and the criminals were shown to be“nice guys who were just bumbling fools.”The complaint stated that Paramount Pictures, Viacom, Bay, Wahlberg, and others twisted the truth for the sake of their film.
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Michael Bay Talks about the Film’s Budget
Since hisTransformersinstallment was made with a $200 million or so budget, Bay was forced to create something with just $25 million at hand. In an interview with Access Hollywood, the director talked about how he managed to successfully pull it off.
“[I went] back to by Bad Boys roots. It’s the lowest budget I’ve had since my first movie. I wanted to do a movie where it was just actors acting and me with a camera. It was just balls to the wall. We had to shoot very quick, because of the budget, but it was good. I liked the budget because it kind of restrained the whole movie. Great performance in the movie. It’s just this twisted tale.”
With a 50% Rotten Tomatoes score, the consensus states that whilePain & Gainis Bay’s most thought-provoking film, it loses the“satirical edge.”The film also faced a ton of controversy when The Associated Press interviewed the survivors and those close to the victims. A woman whose family suffered at the hands of the Sun Gym gang stated that she didn’t want America to sympathize with the criminals.
You can streamPain & Gainon Paramount+.
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A connoisseur of all things horror, fantasy, and the occasional chick flick, Mishkaat has been penning pieces for FandomWire since 2022. She started off as an intern and has worked her way up to a Senior Writer with over 2000 articles to her name.Outside of entertainment, she has also written well-researched medical content as a freelance writer and has experience in social media management.When not writing, you can find her relaxing with a romance novel and a tall glass of iced coffee in her hand or watching re-runs of ‘Supernatural’ and ‘The Office.’
