Netflix is no longer in the Hulk Hogan business. At least that’s what the wrestler, actor, and controversial figure is claiming in a new interview.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Hogan said the Chris Hemsworth-led Hulk Hogan biopic is no longer a Netflix production.
Hell, the actor adds he doesn’t even know if Hemsworth will still star but notes his “life rights” are somewhere else now.
“It was a situation where business-wise, Netflix kind of missed the date as far as a business situation,” Hogan said. “I had a choice at that time to switch gears. My life rights and stuff are somewhere else now, and there’s a lot of things that are getting ready to happen. Hopefully, [director] Todd Phillips and Chris Hemsworth will still want to play; there’s still a huge opportunity there.”
This is where things get super Hogan, with the story taking some possible twisting of the truth.
“Scott Silver wrote the script; he wrote Joker and a bunch of other movies,” Hogan said. “Todd Phillips has done 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. 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.”
“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,” adds Hogan. “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.’ 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.”
The project was first announced back in 2019.
