![]() However, producer Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) secured McMahon’s life rights in recent weeks, leading TriStar to make its move to snap up the project. Williams has been generating interest since last year, although studios were reluctant to commit as it had not received the blessing of WWE or Vince McMahon. WWE might have its first mainstream movie hit with this project.The life of WWE Chairman and sports entertainment legend Vince McMahon is heading to the big screen, with THR reporting that Glenn Ficarra and John Requa ( Crazy, Stupid, Love) are set to direct the biopic Pandemonium for TriStar Pictures. The second part of that epic feud could make for an interesting sequel. We see the genesis of his infamous rivalry with McMahon. The main antagonist of this tale is the one and only Ted Turner. We catch a glimpse at the real life behind the future superstars. There’s an amazing sequence where Vince goes on a recruiting binge to find his next superstars. ![]() The WWE fan in me was giddy anytime a legend would show up. There are so many classic wrestling cameos ranging from Bob Backlund to Randy Savage. The other juicy roles are Linda McMahon, Vince Sr, Gorilla Monsoon and of course Hulk Hogan. Agents should be fighting to have those twentysomething clients fighting for a chance to audition. ![]() It’s the role of a lifetime that could make any young unknown thespian into a star. Whoever ends up playing him will have one hell of an acting showcase. Those scenes need to payoff and makes us care about Vince. This movie needs those dramatic moments between father and son. Their recent work of This is Us has showcased a more emotional side of their filmmaking. I love the idea of John Requa & Glenn Ficarra directing this project. At some points, it feels like the writer took the wildest anecdotes and strung them together for shock value. Do you want sex? There’s an orgy backstage at a wrestling event and a lot of nudity. Do you want wild violent acts? We’ve got destroyed hotel rooms and airplane fights. Do you want drugs? People snorting cocaine everywhere and injecting steroids like there’s no tomorrow. Ozzy Osbourne was snorting ants! Pandemonium is the wrestling version of that story. The anecdotes told in that book were insane. I remember how a decade ago, they tried making a movie out of the biography of the rock band Motley Crue called The Dirt. His marriage and partnership with Linda, his strained and arduous relationship with his father and the building of his wrestling empire. So basically, this story tells the rise and fall of Vince K. It becomes bigger and bigger until a determined US attorney decides to bring him to court over a Steroids scandal. He coins the term Sports Entertainment to describe the new world he created. The wrestling boom of the 1980’s happens mostly thanks to Vince and his vision to change the business. He manages to grow it and eventually buy out his dad. As a reward or punishment, he inherits a small wrestling territory in Maine. Forced by labor laws to hire his son as an announcer, the younger McMahon becomes a valuable member of his dad’s company. His biological father Vince Sr is the owner of the The elder McMahon doesn’t want his son in the family member. McMahon in his early twenties working as a traveling cup salesman. Pandemonium begins in 1971, where we meet Vincent K. “The following story is as true as anything else that happens in professional wrestling.” Williams who wrote the fantastic screenplay tells the audience right away: ![]() Apparently, the project has been kicking around for almost a year before it got the blessings of Vince himself to move forward.Ĭraig A. It was announced this week that John Requa and Glenn Ficarra ( Crazy Stupid Love, Focus) are directing a film called Pandemonium telling the story of Vincent Kennedy McMahon. If you want to see the rise of his evil character, you need to watch the fantastic documentary Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows. His feud with Stone Cold was fun and attracted huge rating to the federation’s flagship TV show RAW. The charismatic billionaire was the focal point of the hatred of every wrestling fan. The biggest villain (or heel in wrestling terminology) was the Czar of Sports Entertainment himself, Vince McMahon. WWE’s Attitude Era headlined by Stone Cold, The Rock and Mick Foley was must watch TV in my house. I became a huge wrestling fan in the late nineties. ![]()
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