TAFs in Front Row While He Talks Showtime's "Pump" Drama!

While we sat in the front row at a Schwarzenegger's Seminar event recently, TheArnoldFans staff was blown away and beyond excited when we first heard from The Austrian Oak himself that he'd possibly have a new bodybuilding series on Showtime! While answering a question about turning down the role to star as The Hulk, Arnold said he'd still possibly team up with Tannenbaum Jr. His father was the producer of Lou's The Hulk.

 Arnold: "Tannenbaum's son, who's a famous producer now,  just came to me two weeks ago because he wants to do a partnership with me and do a TV show about the 70s with Muscle Beach, Gold's Gym and that whole era. So it's really interesting to have the son of Tannenbaum sit there with me what with having his father talk with me all those years or decades before about the Hulk. So in any case, I was happy that I was asked (to play the Hulk) and I was happy to defer two guys to it and they chose Lou."

Arnold sold a drama titled Pump to Showtime. The project traces the origin of the present-day fitness industry and culture of body worship to a single 1,000-square-foot concrete room on Pacific Avenue: a gym called Pump.

The Hollywood Reporter has this new additional information.

The hourlong drama effort, which is set in early 1970s Venice Beach, Calif., will be written and executive produced by Michael Konyves (Barney’s Version, The Last Knight), with The Tannenbaum Co.'s Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (Two and a Half Men) and Schwarzenegger attached as exec producers. If ultimately ordered to series, Schwarzenegger intends to recur.

Conyves, who had a deal at the CBS TV Studios-based Tannenbaum Co., initially brought the idea to the Tannenbaums. "We loved it, but I said the only way you can really tell this story is if we can get Arnold involved," recalls Eric Tannenbaum, adding: "The birth of the fitness/bodybuilding revolution can literally be traced back to the days when Arnold arrived in the U.S." Tannenbaum reached out to CAA, which reps him as well as the former governor, and set up a meeting. Schwarzenegger signed on and began sharing stories of his past.

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