'They Missed A Beat': Hulk Hogan Reveals Why His Biopic Starring Chris Hemsworth Was Shelved

wrestling fans missed out on chance to witness a Hulk Hogan biopic, with Chris Hemsworth portraying Immortal one. Fans were eager to witness journey of two-time WWE Hall of Famer and his rise to fame with WWE and WCW. Unfortunately, film did not materialize and project was canned. Hogan revealed why film was shelved despite a lot of anticipation among fans.

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Hulk Hogan Finally Speaks Out On Shelving Of His Biopic Featuring Chris Hemsworth

During an appearance on PBD Podcast, Hulk Hogan revealed real reason for untitled Netflix biopic of him to be canned. two-time WWE Hall of Famer revealed that Netflix production in charge allegedly missed out on a payment. He also revealed that script me by Joker and Wolf of Wall Street fame Scott Silver was really good. ditionally, re was a belief that Chris Hemsworth could win an Oscar for his performance.

“y kind of missed a beat in contract, yeah. re was a payment that wasn’t placed at right time. script was amazing. Scott Silver, who wrote script for Joker, Wolf of Wall Street, a bunch of or movies, said, ‘This is best thing I’ve ever written.’ When I re it, I’m like, oh my god, this is really good. At time, I was in a space where I told him positive stuff about wrestling.”

“Spent about three years with this writer going back and forth. When I re it, it was just very, very dark, if that would be right word. But it was probably what public may want to see. When I re it I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, if this thing comes out…’ re was talk that Chris Hemsworth h never played a real person before and he could probably win an Oscar, this thing is so powerful,” Hulk Hogan said.

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Hogan ded that missed payment threw a wrench, and Hogan h an option to abandon project, which he chose to opt for.

However, Netflix went on to work on a documentary about WWE's former Kingpin, Vince McMahon, which was released over platform. series received a lot of attention as it highlighted journey of controversial wrestling promoter who built WWE into what it is today.