MESO-Rx is traveling to Dallas to review the steroid documentary and meet up with director Chris Bell. We will have a few live interviews available throughout the afternoon. Please follow me on Twitter to be notified immediately every time there is a live stream from the event. And if you’re in Dallas for the screening, send us a Tweet and meet MESO-Rx and the Bigger Stronger Faster guys afterwards.
Chris Bell told me via email yesterday that his film was sold to a theatrical distribution company with a public announcement coming on Friday. Today, Variety broke the story early by announcing that Magnolia Pictures (co-founded by Dallas Mavericks onwer Mark Cuban) has purchased the worldwide distribution rights to Christopher Bell’s “Bigger Stornger Faster*”, a steroid documentary that critical examines steroid use in society while the filmmaker looks at steroid use by his brothers.
Magnolia plans to release muscle docu later this year theatrically to be followed by play on HDNet. Magnolia and HDNet are part of Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban’s Wagner/Cuban Companies, which also include Landmark Theaters chain and 2929 Productions.
“I love this movie!” said Mark Cuban, owner of Magnolia, Landmark Theaters, HDNET, and the Dallas Mavericks, “It’s informative, fascinating and hysterical - all the things a movie about steroids should be. You can’t miss this one if you are a sports fan.”
“Bigger, Stronger, Faster,” which will inevitably be described as reminiscent of Michael Moore because the director, Chris Bell, has a strong and humorous voice and he’s out to explore nothing less than the American dream, through the lens of the bodybuilding craze that made he and his brothers take steroids like they were candy. Since we were full up at the inn already, we squeezed it in to the Forrest at 5pm on Friday, right up against the March into March.
Last night was the world premier of Christopher Bell’s steroid documentary, “Bigger, Stronger, Faster - Is It Still Cheating if Everyone is Doing it?” at the Sundance Film Festival. I hope it wins the prize. It features dozens of people, both pro-steroid and anti-steroid, including Rick Collins, William Llewellyn, and John Romano. I just interviewed the director Chris Bell and will post the transcript of my interview with him shortly!
