Hulk Hogan Says Netflix No Longer Hold The Rights To His Biopic, Talks Chris Hemsworth Playing Him

Hulk Hogan says Netflix no longer hold the rights to his biopic.

Hogan’s biopic has been slated to be released on Netflix, but now it does not seem to be the case. Originally, Chris Hemsworth was slated to play Hogan in the biopic, as he certainly has the physical attributes to play the WWE Hall Of Famer.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet, Hogan provided an update on the biopic and the “glitches” the movie’s development has faced along the way.

“It was a situation where business-wise, Netflix kind of missed the date as far as a business situation. I had a choice at that time to switch gears. Scott Silver wrote the script, he wrote the Joker and a bunch of other movies. Todd Phillips has done the Joker, Wolf Of Wall Street, all of the crazy stuff that he did. The script came back and it was amazing because my favorite movies are like Scarface, Godfather, True Romance — it was there,” he said. “All of a sudden there was a business glitch and they tried to fix it a few days later, and I had already decided to move on. My life rights and stuff are somewhere else now and there’s a lot of things that are getting ready to happen. Hopefully, Todd Phillips and Chris Hemsworth will still want to play, there’s still a huge opportunity there.”

“Even before we get into this, I said, if anyone played Hulk Hogan, I’d want it to be Chris Hemsworth. His birthday is the same day as mine. We talked once about the situation, he was all excited because he told me he had never played a real person before. [He said], ‘Oh my gosh, your life, it’s so interesting, this is so crazy. This could be the biggest thing I’ve ever done’ — and Scott Silver, the writer, [tells me] that it’s the most amazing script he’s ever written. It’s powerful, it’s in a different place but there will be an opportunity for everybody to regroup.”

Hulk Hogan

We will have to wait and see how long it will be before we see Hogan’s biopic in living colour, but for now it is in developmental limbo.

H/T to Fightful for transcription

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