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A shape adjustment of Stephen Merchant’s 2019 characteristic film, Fighting With My Family, starring Dwayne Johnson and Florence Pugh, is presently successful development.
The shape accumulation is simply a collaboration betwixt Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions, Stephen Merchant, Kevin Misher, Tilted Musicals, and Birmingham Hippodrome. Jon Brittain (Rotterdam) will constitute nan play and lyrics, pinch a caller soundtrack by Miranda Cooper and Nick Coler.
Fighting With My Family was written and directed by Merchant and premiered astatine nan 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The movie follows nan true-life communicative of WWE performer Paige, played by Pugh. Vince Vaughn played nan WWE trainer, and Johnson featured arsenic himself arsenic good arsenic a shaper connected nan movie pinch Dany Garcia for Seven Bucks Productions.
The shape accumulation is said to beryllium inspired by nan film. The communicative will travel Paige, primitively named Saraya Knight, a goth outsider raised successful a chaotic but loving British wrestling dynasty. The synopsis reads: 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.
“Fighting With My Family feels exceptionally well-suited for nan stage,” Johnson said successful a statement. “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. Working pinch Stephen Merchant connected nan movie was a genuinely typical experience, and his superb activity deserves this caller act. As it comes to life musically, I person nary uncertainty it will beryllium an absolute blast for theatergoers.”
