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Fighting pinch My Family is headed from nan squared circle to nan stage. The 2019 pro wrestling biopic is being adapted arsenic a musical, pinch nan film’s writer-director Stephen Merchant and co-star Dwayne Johnson onboard arsenic producers.
Tilted Musicals pinch collaborating pinch Merchant, Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions, Kevin Misher and Birmingham Hippodrome to create nan show pinch book and lyrics by Olivier Award-winning playwright Jon Brittain. The tunes will travel from Miranda Cooper and Nick Coler.
“When we were making nan film, I ever thought of it for illustration a musical: a young female from nan ‘chorus line’ fighting to get her large break, surrounded by theatrical, larger-than-life characters and immense sweeping emotions,” Merchant said. “I approached each wrestling lucifer for illustration it was a different creation number, building to a large show-stopping finale. Seeing nan movie reimagined for nan shape feels for illustration nan earthy adjacent step. ”
The movie premiered astatine nan 2019 Sundance Film Festival and deed theaters that February. It starred FLorence Pugh successful nan bonzer existent communicative of WWE prima Paige aka Saraya Knight, a goth outsider who is raised successful a chaotic but loving British wrestling dynasty. When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity takes her from Norwich to America’s glitzy WWE, she must face who she really is without her family successful her corner. Vince Vaughn besides starred arsenic her WWE trainer, and Johnson played himself.
“Fighting With My Family feels exceptionally well-suited for nan stage,” Johnson said. “It’s packed pinch individual emotion expressed done nan move world of wrestling, which has ever been astir storytelling and connecting pinch a unrecorded audience. … As it comes to life musically, I person nary uncertainty it will beryllium an absolute blast for theatergoers.”
The task is first philharmonic developed and produced by Tilted Musicals, a caller accumulation institution tally by Cooper and UK producer-director Sam Hodges. Closed workshops will return spot this twelvemonth earlier a nationalist position successful 2027.
