Meanwhile, Wahlberg also seems to be set on Michael Bay's small pet project "Pain and Gain" after all. Unlike the director's gigantic "Transformers" films, "Pain" would be smaller in scale and is based on the real-life story of bonehead bodybuilders who get in over their heads in the criminal underworld when a kidnapping scheme goes awry. Although it was rumored he'd dropped out of the project, Wahlberg cleared up the confusion. "No, I didn’t drop out of it either, they’re waiting on a rewrite for the script… I just spoke to Ari [Emanuel] who represents me as well as Michael [Bay] and we’re waiting on a script.”
"Pain and Gain" would put Wahlberg alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the two would-be criminals.