Hulk Hogan is headed to Netflix in a new film surrounding his life in wrestling.
According to Hollywood Reporter, the biopic which will star Chris Hemsworth in the title role, will examine the life of Hogan aka Terry Bollea from his early wrestling beginnings to his meteoric rise in WWE.
One of the biggest names in wrestling of all time, Hogan was a fixture on TV sets in 1980s America as part of the World Wrestling Federation who subsequently parlayed his championships-winning leg drops and star power into forays into movies and television, endorsements and video games.
Born Terry Gene Bollea, Hogan began his career in the late 1970s in the Florida wrestling circuit, and when he started in the WWF, he frequently squared off against Andre the Giant as a villainous fighter. When Vince McMahon took over the company and began expanding it into a national presence, Hogan was its face and by then a hero persona. By the end of the ’80s, he was one of the Me Decade’s key personalities, gracing magazine covers, appearing on nightly talk shows and even headlining a Saturday morning cartoon.
The project will not examine Hogan’s sex-tape/Gawker settlement nor the racist rant that kicked him out of WWE for 2-years before being reinstated.