I saw an interview with Dennis Wolf and the director and it was the same thing. Dennis just didn't have the personality or charisma to make bodybuilders look anything more than what the general public thinks of them. I agree that this movie will need an Arnold type personality but I don't think any of the bodybuilders featured in this movie will have it.
Phil Heath
Dennis Wolf
Hidetada Yamagishi
Branch Warren
Kai Greene
Ben Pakulski
Bingo.
Heath - too worried about sponsors to say anything controversial. He'll be watching every word to say just the right thing to make Weider, and Blechman, and Manion and whatever else happy. Nothing of substance, but plenty nice and flowery.
Wolf - well, you saw it. Not very exciting and bland.
Hide - we saw it. Not very exciting. He seems like he wants to be, and if it were Japanese, maybe he'd come out of his shell. Not as comfortable with english as a second language to pull of the satire and chops needed to hold screen time
Ben - I don't know anything about him. Maybe it'll be good...
Branch - comes across as a good old boy, and a little crazy in the gym. But still, will play the Heath card and not do or say anything that would rock the boat. Too much to lose, especially with his side business and how his customers and vendors would view him. He'll play nice.
Kai - the wild card. And folks might kind of like that "head in the clouds" kind of thing. But it'll get old fast. Tom Platz tried that shit in his "fly on the wall video" if anyone remembers. Gets boring fast. Folks don't care about metaphysical transformation.
People want shit-talking. They want Chael Sonnen meets Steve Austin meets Terrell Owens meets Arnold. Kai won't deliver it. He'll be introspective, and "it's all about being the best "me"...that's dull. If bodybuilding is to get any interest, they have to make the pageant look like a sport, where men try to beat each other in sporting events. If it comes across as solitary, narcissistic and drab (I don't know how bodybuilding could come across as anything but), then it will fail.
The best movie on bodybuilding to come out in the last 20 years is still Bigger Stronger Faster, in documentary style. That's kind of sad, but I guess that's also par for the course these days.