Hulkamania may not live forever after all, at least not in the form of the Hulk Hogan biopic starring Chris Hemsworth of Thor and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga fame. The movie seemed to have all the ingredients for success, with the aforementioned, big-named and big-framed Hemsworth set to star as the Hulkster, Joker director Todd Phillips pegged as director, and Netflix as the platform of choice but for whatever reasons the creative process never came to fruition.
“I love what we were trying to do, but that’s not going to come together for me,” Phillips told Variety.
Hulk Hogan himself reiterated that the project was scrapped in a podcast sitdown with Chris Van Vliet on Wednesday.
“It was a situation where business-wise, Netflix kind of missed the date as far as a business situation,” Hogan told Van Vliet. “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.”
Hogan added, “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. 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.”
Though the news that the Joker director’s Hulk Hogan biopic starring Chris Hemsworth won’t see the light of day is surely disappointing to whatever remaining Hulkamaniacs out there across the globe are still eating their vitamins and saying their prayers, it’s perhaps not the most surprising, given Hemsworth’s uncertainty around the film when asked about it back in May.
“If there’s a great script and a story to tell,” Hemsworth told ScreenRant. “I’d love to jump into it. But there’s nothing official at this point.”
Although Hulkamania won’t run wild on Netflix, there’s speculation that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity production company has landed the script for a film called “Killing Gawker,” which is based on Ryan Holiday’s book “Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue.” Yes, the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker case. Also reportedly attached to the project as screenwriter is Charles Randolph of The Big Short fame, though nothing official in terms of release date or official cast has been set yet.
What do you think of the fact that hte Joker director’s Hulk Hogan biopic starring Chris Hemsworth has been cancelled? Were you looking forward to watching the Hemsworth-helmed Hulk Hogan biopic on Netflix? Let us know in the comments, brother.
