Fans are geared up for Ronda Rousey’s upcoming biopic.
A decade ago, the UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey released her book, ‘My Fight/Your Fight,’ which detailed her difficult journey to Olympic glory and her UFC rise. Nine years later, in 2024, Rousey released her second book, titled ‘Our Fight.’ It detailed her time in WWE and comeback following her shocking loss to Holly Holm.
Now, both these books are set to serve as an inspiration/foundation for her upcoming Netflix biopic. Recently, in a report by Deadline, it was noted that Rousey’s time in WWE helped her pen her biopic script in just seven days, leaving her agents shocked. As a first-time screenplay writer, Rousey went through several scripts, screenwriting techniques, and structures, enabling her to complete the script in a week.
The project was previously with Paramount in 2015, when the studio had first acquired rights to the first memoir, ‘My Fight/Your Fight.’ However, soon after several regime changes, the rights lapsed as Netflix acquired the project.
Chernin Entertainment soon joined as producers, helping her bring those words to life. As per Deadline, Augustine Frizzell is set to direct the biopic based on Rousey’s memoirs. Frizzel is known for ‘Never Goin’ Back’, ‘Euphoria’, and ‘The Last Letter From Your Lover.’
Ronda Rousey’s Netflix biopic currently does not have a confirmed release date.
Ronda Rousey Has Been Credited For This Historic WWE Record
Earlier this month, while speaking to Julian Edelman on his Games with Names podcast,Charlotte Flair credited the first women’s WrestleMania main-event match to Ronda Rousey.
“And it was the main event of only one night. Now we have two nights… So it’s a big deal. Now you have two nights, two different opportunities, so, that being the main event of one night was huge, and it’ll never happen again, unless we go to one night.”
“We would have not main evented WrestleMania had it not been for Ronda [Rousey]. Hands down. When she wanted to kind of join what we had already started to build but her star power, her credibility, her outside influence, the audience that she brought. Kudos to her. I know that, you know, someone said in her book that she couldn’t wrestle but at the end of the day, it really didn’t matter.”
“She was Ronda and she didn’t need to. She had such an aura to her and really did figure it out and brought that much to the table so, I thank her for what she did for us, because, she didn’t have to come wrestle. She’d already done it all and it was real. So she just added that legitimacy to what we were trying to do that we didn’t have and she caught on.”
“I hated our ‘Mania [35] match. She [Ronda Rousey] liked it, I hated it… The ending. It’s all about the story. The match… But the story. The story was insane.”
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