Director
Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer and Runner Runner) has signed up to write and
direct Bigger.
Bigger
will be based on the book Brothers of Iron, and will tell the story of the
bodybuilding brothers Joe and Ben Weider. Joe created the Mr. Olympia
competition and acted as a mentor for a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and
together with his brother Ben co-founded the International Federation of Body
Builders. The brothers came from poverty before making their empire.
Brothers
of Iron Book Synopsis Via Amazon:
In
the depths of the Great Depression a scrawny, dirt-poor Jewish kid with a
seventh-grade education picked up a barbell and got hooked on weight training.
Building his muscles gave him confidence and hope for a better life. He pledged
to make the great, transforming power of strength training available to
everyone and to give bodybuilding all the glory it deserved. The kid, Joe
Weider, enlisted his younger brother Ben in his quest, and together the Weider
brothers accomplished things much bigger than Joe’s boyhood dreams. The little
muscle magazine Joe started, working at his family’s dining room table, grew
into a publishing empire. From a backyard barbell business, Joe and Ben built
equipment and food supplement companies each as big as Weider Publishing. And
they transformed bodybuilding into a hugely successful sport, organized under one
of the largest and best-run athletic federations in the world.
The
Weider brothers are heroes to bodybuilders and fans all over the world. They’re
heroes because they’re revolutionaries. The Weiders changed the way people
think about exercise, health, and what makes a body beautiful. They changed the
world and Brothers of Iron tells their fascinating story.
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