Hulk Hogan Reveals Why He Pulled Out Of Film Biopic

Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan has revealed why he put the kibosh on the scrapped biopic in which he was set to be portrayed by Chris Hemsworth.

During a recent appearance on the PBD podcast, The Hulkster noted that he wasn't happy with the script's content and, when a payment wasn't placed in time, he exercised an option to pull out of the production.

"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", he said. The 71-year-old added that he had 'reasonable creative input' in the process, which is different to the 'creative control' he would have preferred. Hogan recently appeared at Donald Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden, where he struggled to rip off his shirt.

H/T Fightful