Hulk Hogan recently elucidateed why his Netflix biopic with Chris Hemsworth was call offed. In a podcast intersee, Hogan stated that a missed payment deadline by Netflix caengaged the project to drop thcdisesteemful. His comments elucidate why the production, originassociate set to depict his wrestling atsoft, came to an unforeseeed end.
Hulk Hogan says a shrink publish got his biopic with Chris Hemsworth canned
In 2019, Netflix declared a Hulk Hogan biopic starring Chris Hemsworth, honested by Joker’s Todd Phillips. The film aimed to showcase Hogan’s elevate from his thrive over The Iron Sheik to the peak of “Hulkamania.” It promised fans an in-depth see at his atsoft.
Earlier this year, Phillips discneglected that they had essentiassociate scrapped the project but provided no further details. Now, Hogan has shed airy on the reason, citing shrinkual missteps as the primary caengage. “They benevolent of missed a beat in the shrink,” Hogan elucidateed during an ecombineance on the PBD podcast.
“There was a payment that wasn’t placed at the right time.” Hogan highairyed the quality of the script, penned by Joker creater Scott Silver, calling it “amazing” and noting, “When I read it, I’m enjoy, oh my God, this is reassociate excellent.”
Hogan allotd that he labored seally with Silver for three years, contributing his insights into wrestling’s selectimistic and pessimistic sides. “Spent about three years with this creater going back and forth. When I read it, it was fair very, very gloomy,” he said, holding that this gloomyer tone might resonate with the accessible’s interest in the authenticities of wrestling.
The script, he consentd, was so strong that it had “Oscar” potential for Hemsworth, especiassociate given that he’d never carry outed a authentic person before. Ultimately, Hogan chose to walk away from the project when Netflix missed the shrinkual payment deadline. “I fair was moving forward at the time, and when they, business-rational, missed a date, there was an selection for me to pull out and I did,” he verifyed.
Phillips, who previously transmited enthusiasm for the project, also verifyed he has no set ups to revisit the shelved film. “That’s not going to come together for me,” he telderly Variety.
