The sleazy side of Tony Shalhoub's character Victor Kershaw could also have been inspired by Frank Griga, who is portrayed by actor Michael Rispoli in the movie. Marc Schiller attempts to reveal the true story behind the Pain & Gain movie in his book Pain and Gain - The Untold True Story. This amount was later reduced to $128,597.87. He received 46 months in prison and was ordered to pay back $14.6 million to the government. Making matters worse, Sun Gym gang member Jorge Delgado, who is loosely represented in the movie by Dwayne Johnson's Paul Doyle, was one of the witnesses who testified against Schiller, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government. He was charged with orchestrating a Medicare billing scheme through his nutritional supplements companies. He owned the then failing Schlotzsky's Deli franchise, but he still had over seven-figures in the bank thanks to his nutritional supplements companies.Īs far as being a criminal, the day that Marc Schiller testified against the Sun Gym gang, federal agents arrested him as he left the courthouse. He says that he never smoked cigars and he wasn't surrounded by women in scant bikinis. "I was always a humble, family person." At the time, Schiller lived in a two-story house with his wife and two children. After watching the Pain & Gain movie trailer, the Argentinean Marc Schiller reacted to Tony Shalhoub's character by saying that the brash Victor Kershaw is all wrong, "There is no resemblance to me at all," Schiller says. Miraculously, he lived after eventually coming out of a coma and woke up in the hospital ( ). Staggering, the gang ran him over twice with a Camry (not a van) and left him for dead. Seeing that he was still alive, they then doused the vehicle with fuel and set it on fire with him in it, but Schiller jumped out of the flaming car. When the gang was done with him, they made him wash down sleeping pills with liquor, put him behind the wheel of his Toyota 4Runner, and rammed it into a utility pole to make it look like a drunk driving accident. Throughout his ordeal with the gang, Schiller had been Tased, burned, beaten, pistol-whipped and forced to endure games of Russian roulette. "You also gotta remember that not only I went through this, but certain people were killed, so making these guys look like nice guys is atrocious" ( ). "The way they tell it made it look like a comedy," explains survivor Marc Schiller. I don't want the American public to be sympathetic to the killers." Zsuzsanna says that the movie's depiction of the gang as sympathetic goofballs is "ridiculous." She adds, "It's horrible what happened to them. Zsuzsanna Griga's brother Frank and his girlfriend Krisztina Furton were murdered and dismembered by members of the gang. Survivor Marc Schiller and the family members of the victims are furious over the movie's comedic take on the ordeal. The real Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton (top) were murdered and dismembered at the hands of the Sun Gym gang like in the movie (bottom). ĭid they really disguise themselves as ninjas? As for Carl Weekes, the biggest part of the Paul Doyle composite, he was given a ten-year sentence for his role in the Schiller abduction. Delgado was released in 2002, after serving only seven. Like Dwayne Johnson's character in the movie, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 1996, Jorge Delgado confessed his role in the kidnappings, pointing the finger at Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal for the murder and dismemberment of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton. Jorge Delgado on the other hand, had a wife and had not been to prison until after he was found guilty for his role as a member of the Sun Gym gang. Like Dwayne Johnson's Doyle, Carl Weekes had found Christianity after he got clean. New York native Carl Weekes was also an ex-con who had issues with alcohol and crack cocaine. In the movie, Doyle is a muscle-bound ex-con and a recovering addict who becomes hooked on cocaine. Survivor Marc Schiller describes the Havana-born Jorge Delgado as "meek," going on to say that "he wouldn't hurt a fly." Physically, the 140-pound lightweight Carl Weekes and the tall, thin Jorge Delgado are quite the opposite of Dwayne Johnson's Paul Doyle ( ). During our research into the Pain & Gain true story, we learned that the real Paul Doyle is a composite of primarily Carl Weekes, with shades of Jorge Delgado (pictured left) and Mario Sanchez thrown in (Sanchez was a weightlifting instructor brought in to serve as the intimidator during the Schiller kidnapping). Jorge Delgado (right) was also part of the inspiration for Dwayne Johnson's character Paul Doyle (left).