It seems ideas are still running thin throughout Hollywood as Johnny Ferraro, creator of the American Gladiators TV franchise, is bringing a live-action adaptation of the property to the big screen. The film will be based on the TV show that first aired in 1988 and has been on the air every year except one during the past 20 years. Most recently, NBC aired a primetime installment in 2008. The show has aired in more than 90 countries, with the format adapted for the local market in 14 of them. Former Legendary Pictures chief marketing officer Scott Mednick is producing American Gladiators, with the goal being to create an action story that takes place inside the world Ferraro has created. Ferraro noted American Gladiators was originally conceived as a film, but the property "took a detour and became a TV phenomenon”. Mednick, who recently began developing a film installment in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise,
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