In February 2019, it was announced that Chris Hemsworth would play the role of Hulk Hogan in an upcoming biopic.
Details remained scarce as the years passed, and fans wondered if the project would ever see the light of day. In August, director Todd Phillips said it was not going to come together.
Appearing on the PBD podcast, Hogan commented on the project.
“They kind of missed a beat in the contract. Yeah [when Patrick Bet-David said Netflix screwed up]. There was a payment that wasn’t placed at the right time. The script was amazing. Scott Silver, who wrote the script for ‘Joker’ ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ a bunch of other movies, said, ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever written.’ When I read it, I’m like, oh my god, this is really good. At the time, I was in a space where I told him the positive stuff about wrestling. Spent about three years with this writer going back and forth, and when I read it, it was just very, very dark, if that would be the right word, but it was probably what the public may want to see. When I read it, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, if this thing comes out,’ there was talk that Chris Hemsworth had never played a real person before and he could probably win an Oscar, this thing is so powerful. I said, ‘That’s great, everybody’s gonna do really great,’ then I’m gonna be left here alone, and that might be the last thing people remember me for, so I just was moving forward at the time, and when they business-wise missed a date, there was an option for me to pull out, and I did. I pulled out. This has no check and balance system [like a documentary]. What it did do, it took me right up to the time I turned bad guy, until I turned to Hollywood Hogan and went to WCW. So if this movie did blow through the roof like they expected it would, then there would be another one, which would be really cool.
"Reasonable creative input is not the same as creative control. [I would prefer] creative control. I would be very fair, but it has to be a balance. It can’t just be lopsided, evil, evil, evil wrestler."
Hogan seemingly confirmed that the film would focus on the origin of Hulkamania and wouldn't dive into Hogan's racist comments that came to light in 2015. Eric Bischoff was named as one of the producers and Todd Phillips, Scott Silver, and John Pollono were reportedly set to co-write the film.
Elsewhere during the interview, Hogan commented on his contract with WWE. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
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