EXCLUSIVE: Producer Lisa Saltzman has nabbed characteristic rights to Steven Kaminsky’s bestselling biography Something Is Potential: The Jack LaLanne Story on the health guru of the identical identify, with well-known private coach Gunnar Peterson coming aboard to exec produce her adaptation.
The e book revealed in 2020 relays the passionate, adventurous spirit of an American health icon who actually believed that you can obtain something. Whereas the challenge’s author hasn’t been introduced, and a director has not but been hooked up, it’s on the script stage and can look to set its forged later this yr.
The creatives behind the pic observe that there are at present over 200,000 well being golf equipment on this planet — and that 64 million Individuals maintain fitness center memberships, including as much as a whopping $87B business globally. How did we get right here? The reply is straightforward: Jack LaLanne. A real pioneer who understood the facility of affect earlier than social media. Utilizing a brand-new medium known as tv, Jack created the primary fitness-focused TV program, The Jack LaLanne Present, in 1951 and noticed it run for a document 34 years, reaching and instructing hundreds of thousands about the advantages of train. “Something is feasible” was LaLanne’s catch phrase, however it was way more than a slogan — it was how he lived his life and wished all of us to reside ours.
“My first job was at a Jack LaLanne membership, I’ve nice reminiscences from it. The members had been into it, they had been energized, they knew they had been doing nice issues for his or her thoughts and physique,” Saltzman informed Deadline. “Jack began all of it. His attain was approach past the golf equipment. He’s a health and vitamin Guru. His story is extremely compelling, inspiring and motivational, he’s an icon.”
Peterson added that “Jack LaLanne is the locomotive that pulled the remainder of the health prepare around the globe. His affect can’t be overestimated, and it will likely be with us ceaselessly. His contributions are too quite a few to call, and I can assure that now we have all benefitted from them at one time or one other.”
Continues the EP, “I’ve a weight belt that Jack signed for me that hangs above the workplace door in my fitness center. Individuals ask why that piece of memorabilia (extra like historical past!) will get such a coveted spot and I say that as a result of with out Jack, I wouldn’t be right here, and this fitness center undoubtedly wouldn’t be right here.”
Saltzman can also be at present growing movies primarily based on two notable artist biographies: Debby Campbell and Mark Bego’s Burning Bridges: Life with My Father Glen Campbell and Matthew Hild’s Arrow By means of the Coronary heart: The Biography of Andy Gibb. The previous charts highs and lows within the lifetime of nation music star Glen Campbell, whereas the latter seems at singer-songwriter Andy Gibb’s wrestle with fame, cocaine habit and passing at simply 30 years outdated.
Saltzman exec produced the Thomas Haden Church movie Deception Street and can also be an award-winning photographer whose ‘Metropolis Anonymity’ collection has acquired a lot consideration.
Peterson is a Beverly Hills-based private coach recognized for working with shoppers starting from celebrities like Dwayne Johnson to skilled athletes and on a regular basis individuals who has been within the health business for almost 30 years, previously serving as Director of Power and Endurance for the Los Angeles Lakers. He’s an editor and wrote a daily column for Muscle and Health journal for over a decade, is a contributor to Clear Consuming journal, and is on the advisory board for Health journal, additionally recurrently that includes in magazines like Attract, Elle, In Model, In Contact, Us, Males’s Well being, Girls’s Well being and Self.
Peterson has additionally beforehand been seen on The At the moment Present, Fox & Mates, CNN Headline Information, The Massive Concept with Donny Deutsch, Further, Conserving Up with the Kardashians, La La’s Full Court docket Life, Revenge Physique and quite a few different exhibits for E! and VH1.
