‘Blue Valentine’ Director Derek Cianfrance Developing HBO Bodybuilding Comedy

“Muscle” is based on Oxford-educated bodybuilder’s memoir

"Blue Valentine" director Derek Cianfrance is developing a body-building comedy for HBO, the network confirms.

The single-camera comedy "Muscle" is based on Sam Fussell's memoir "Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder," about Fussell's four years as a full-time bodybuilder after he graduated from Oxford.

Cianfrance and Fussell will co-write the script and Cianfrance will direct the pilot.

The two will co-executive produce, and "Blue Valentine" producer Jamie Patricof will executive produce with John Lesher and Adam Kassan.

 

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