Brad Furman, the director behind The Lincoln Lawyer and this week's Runner Runner , has found his next project. Deadline reports that Furman will next write and direct, Bigger , a biopic of Ben and Joe Weider, the sibling pair who created the Mr. Olympia competition and changed the face of professional bodybuilding. The film will be based in part on "Brothers of Iron," the siblings' 2006 memoir, officially described as follows:
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...
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