Based on a true story, Pain and Gain stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson as two body-builders who get caught up in an extortion and kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. The film was made on a paltry $25 milion dollar budget, compared to Bay’s mega million dollar Transformers budgets, and working with Mark Wahlberg convinced the director that he was the perfect choice to continue the Transformers franchise.
