Dwayne Johnson<\/a> and Florence Pugh, is currently in development.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tThe stage production is a collaboration between Johnson and Dany Garcia\u2019s Seven Bucks Productions, Merchant, Kevin Misher, Tilted Musicals, and Birmingham Hippodrome. Jon Brittain (Rotterdam<\/em>) will write the play and lyrics, with a new soundtrack by Miranda Cooper and Nick Coler.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tFighting With My Family<\/em> was written and directed by Merchant and premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film follows the true-life story of WWE performer Paige, played by Pugh. Vince Vaughn played the WWE trainer, and Johnson featured as himself as well as a producer on the film with Dany Garcia for Seven Bucks Productions.<\/p>\n\n\tThe stage production is said to be inspired by the film. The story will follow Paige, originally named Saraya Knight, a goth outsider raised in a chaotic but loving British wrestling dynasty. The synopsis reads: When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity takes her from Norwich to America\u2019s glitzy WWE, she must confront who she really is without her family in her corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n\t\u201cFighting with My Family<\/em> feels exceptionally well-suited for the stage,\u201d Johnson said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s packed with personal emotion expressed through the dynamic world of wrestling, which has always been about storytelling and connecting with a live audience. Working with Stephen Merchant on the film was a truly special experience, and his brilliant work deserves this new act. As it comes to life musically, I have no doubt it will be an absolute blast for theatergoers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music A stage adaptation of Stephen Merchant\u2019s 2019 feature film, Fighting with My Family, starring Dwayne Johnson and Florence Pugh, is currently in development.\u00a0 The stage production is a collaboration between Johnson and Dany Garcia\u2019s Seven Bucks Productions, Merchant, Kevin Misher, Tilted Musicals, and Birmingham Hippodrome. Jon Brittain (Rotterdam) will write the play and lyrics, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131522],"class_list":["post-908302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-news","tag-podcast-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}