• Health and Wellness

  • Joe Epstein
  • Set Up
  • Thriller
  • 2017
  • Black List
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Market: Wed, 10 May 2017Sold: Mon, 11 Dec 2017
Actor: Anne Hathaway, Rachel O'Connor
Producer: Amy Pascal
ManagerKen Gross (Ken Gross Management)
AgentDarian Lanzetta (CAA)
StudioTristar Productions
ProductionPascal Pictures
A sociopath obsessed with self-improvement claws her way to the top of the fitness world, leaving a trail of broken bodies in her wake.
A fitness trainer's obsession with the perfect life and body leads to murderous inclinations.
A murderous fitness instructor fights her way to the top of the fitness world, leaving a wake of bodies in her path.
A female psychopath uses a passion for fitness to work people over the edge, to death.
Film
Film, Female Protagonist, Thriller, Murder, Killer, Obsession, Serial Killer
108
R
High
F
Unspecified
30
Attractive
"American Psycho”, “Psycho”, and “Silence of the Lambs”, "The Trainer"
Present, A Few Months
Set in Los Angeles, pet store, fitness studios, office, hotel conference room, expo center, suburbs, gym, apartment complex, rec center, sushi restaurant, Reebok headquarters, Venice Bungalow, Santa Monica Pier
In downtown L.A., JACQUELINE HEATH (Adult) saves a stray cat and sells it to a pet store. She witnesses a fitness class, and becomes an instructor.

At a fitness conference, Jacqueline meets SHAWN KELLY (Adult), a fitness guru, who tells the attendees that Reebok is looking for the face of its new gym. Jaqueline enlists Shawn’s help in securing Reebok’s sponsorship. Shawn advises Jacqueline to create her brand on social media. Obsessive, Jacqueline begins training PETER (Adult), an overweight dad, in order to have before and after pictures from her training program. She also begins a relationship with ALEX (30’s) and fosters OLIVIA (12) in order to make herself more appealing to others.

Jacqueline’s following on social media grows, and popularity for her fitness classes increases. However, Olivia’s service worker, LAURIE (Adult), tries to remove Olivia from Jacqueline’s care, Jacqueline gets rid of her, assumedly killed.

After Jacqueline insults Alex during her fitness class, Alex breaks up with her. Peter stops showing up to class. Infuriated, Jacqueline forces Peter to run until he collapses, dead.

Shawn cancels Jacqueline’s meeting with Reebok after she tells him that Peter quit her class. However, Jacqueline goes behind...