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https://www.ign.com/articles/joker-director-todd-phillips-hulk-hogan-biopic-chris-hemsworth-no-longer-happening
Aug 23, 2024 4:40 AM
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https://www.ign.com/articles/joker-director-todd-phillips-hulk-hogan-biopic-chris-hemsworth-no-longer-happening
RyanH42
There are better wrestlers to make biopics about I'm sure.
JCBalance
Poor Thunderlips
Targe0
They should still make it, but make it accurate and show how much of a terrible person he is and always has been.
Clockworkdancerobot
You would think the Terry's rampant racism of the past would have been an indicator.
TheOneTrueZippy8
Watcha gonna do when the consequences of decades of your actions catch up with you, brother ?
sowhat4
If you wear lots of orange makeup, you whine. So, so much whining. Just remember: The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
ButtplugHandGrenade
Say your prayers, eat your vitamins, and blame someone else, brother.
onlymostofthetime
oh brother where art thou? except it's hulk hogan wondering where all the good will and money went
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
I hope his recent MAGA phase puts him into irrelevance
MisterLemons
Magats will put him on a pedestal but really that's not much of a praise because they would put a wad of chewed gum on that pedestal if it stuck to a liberals shoe and mildly inconvenienced him.
TheFastpaws
Hogan sabotaged wrestlers when they tried to unionize. Fuck that asshole!
DrDadJokes
Long-awaited? Wat? People waited for this?
GroovyCrowley
That's awesome that walking trashcan doesn't need a biopic. I doubt that it would have shown what an asshole he always was.
TalkingSnake
What about his murderer son?
Macwalrus
What a joke!
lifeisadadjoke
FAFO You has-been!
justplainvanilla
eromitlab
FUCK THE HULK HOGAN
smashpro1
RIP SHEIKY BABY!
MyRespectableAlterEgo
Whoah wait a minute - so the founder and spokesman of Pastamania was also a WRESTLER? Damn that’s crazy.
AngelheadedGold
A true regret of mine is that Pastamania existed contemporaneously with my childhood in the Mall of America and I never even knew it was there.
MyRespectableAlterEgo
oh man... that's legit tragic, you missed a real cultural milestone there: like I know it was just bad pasta endorsed by a steroid-addled racist, but it's just such a snapshot of such a spectacularly bizarre pop-culture glitch
FoxySpirit
I still hate he has a cameo in Gremlins 2.
PimpinKen
I hate that he made movies... period
UltraHellboy
Oh come on! Suburban Commando was… a movie.
darkhalfbreed
Was that the "I WAS FROZEN TODAY" movie?
UltraHellboy
Maybe? All I remember at this point was the cat being flung out of a tree and Christopher Lloyd shooting a traffic signal box with a Ray-gun.
paintingagency
Got bad news about "Home Alone 2" for ya, scro :(
Hashbrown123
So he got super jacked for nothing./s
AxelBeingCivil
On top of everything else, Hogan is anti-union. Dude's dirt on a worker's shoe.
CaptCrobar
Great now we're going to hear Hulk Hogan bitching like Kevin Sorbo.
JohnBrooks2001
Many moons ago I worked at the Tampa Sportatorium . During my time there I met many of the old school wrestlers. Saw many of them naked. Lets just put it this way,Ole Hulk isnt very well proportioned. I was mightily unimpressed. It was a very interesting few months.Lots of cocaine and loose women,and a few loose boys ! Now if they told the REAL behind the scene stories thatd make a helluva movie .
Spidey209
Andre should have smooshed Hulk Hogan's face like he wanted to.
Burke616
Someone could probably still get Kevin Sorbo to do it.
halfabubbleoff
Naw, they’re looking for actors to cast in the role.
wadatahmydamie
They’re not looking that hard, supposedly they cast Ben Affleck instead
Trassation
Brutal.
eromitlab
"And Hogan, you big bald son of a bitch, kiss my ass!"
-Vince Russo
ProudAussie
Wasn't there already a movie about him. It wasn't all that long as he finished quite quickly with his friends wife.
dobroweigh
Joker director... Are you sure he isn't joking?
JiffyPopPhantom
I think he's trying to outcringe his last movie so he can stay relevant
TheDildoOfConsequences
If you mean Joker, then I'd plead that there's not that much wrong with the film itself. It's nothing special, but it's a competent portrait of a shitty broken human in a comic-book universe. What IS cringe is the face-slappingly stupid take that some whiny little incels took from it, but you can't really lay that at Phillips's feet, any more than you can blame The Boys for what some brain-addled morons think about Homelander.
Youhavinagiraffe
You definitely can lay that partly at Phillip's feet. He spent a lot of time doing "you can't say anything nowadays!" interviews prior to release and the film itself is messy and incoherent in what it's trying to say. It leaves itself wide open to the kind of takes it got. It isn't like The Boys which has a clear message that dumb people misread, it's a buffet of half-developed ideas and themes that it's hard to refute any individual take on, even some of the very stupid ones
TheDildoOfConsequences
Thank you, I wasn't aware of the outside context like interviews. And I agree that it's not really valid to compare Joker to Homelander, who's a much more outright monster.
I guess the key ambiguity with Joker is that it says, "if you pile enough shit on people, then they'll eventually snap," and... that's not actually untrue, but the question is whether the breaking point is actually beyond reasonable human expectations.
TheDildoOfConsequences
I'd say the error that certain people made with Joker was not a categorical error, but just a question of degree and proportion. Basement-dwelling trolls elevating their own petulant little grievances to compare to those of a fictional character with massive psychiatric problems in a caricature universe.
IWasACatAllAlong
Well, he already played a villain in Mad Max Furiosa. You can't just play 2 villains in your lifetime.
digifuzzy
"The Dildo of Consequences rarely arrives lubed"
alcamar
KarlaAnne
Oh my god. Is this real? I need a quick backstory or good article that i dont have to google lol
Agreement2agree
It's wrestling banter.
iWantedAcoolNameButTheyOnlyHadThisOne
His words are pure poetry.
softballguy
Anybody want a peanut?
randomwalrus
When both Andre and Hossein dislike you, you know you done fucked up. Just hope you are smart enough to realize it, and change your ways.
UltraHellboy
He wasn’t.
SnoopyDancing
i could hear his voice as i read it.
ATastyCorpsesicle
If only he'd gotten the chance.
OppaGangnamPyle
Yeah.. this reads like a wrestling bit..in character. I understand Hogan sucks but this Andre quote is likely out of context.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
Of *COURSE* it's a wrestling bit. What else would it be?
I swear, some of y'all are acting are acting like you're still not sure if pro wrestling is for real.
UnrealEstates
So.. the Kevin Sorbo one is now able to finally be made then? (/S)
TheIronPenguin
Watching sorbo try to play hulk hogan might be somewhat amusing for a minute or so because it would be so bad. Sure wouldn't pay for it, though. :P
ApothecaryGrant
Hulk Hogan's been an asshole for a looooong time. Why would Chris Hemsworth even agree to a project like that? I guess it would make sense if the script was going to rake him over the coals, but still. Nowadays people don't want to know any more about the guy than they already do. They just want Hulk Hogan to stfu and go away.
pachyderm
All wrestlers really
ElectricFops
Because Hollywood is still pretty sure that people will pay money to go see movies, and Chris Hemsworth was promised some of that money, and he likes money too. Would the movie have flopped? Maybe. If it did, it wouldn't have hurt Hemsworth's career, and he would've been paid anyway.
darxide
Biopics are made about terrible people all the time. If the writer and director are honest, they don't shy away from the low points of that person's life. So my guess is that it would have depicted the rise and fall of Hogan and all of the dirty shit he's done. Someone needs to play the bad guy on screen and there's no shame in it.
Trisar
Gonna be honest, as a NOT wrestling fan, finding out Hogan was a complete piece of shit was fairly recent for me and related to the noise made in the political news sphere. I can't even remember where I first heard about him because he was completely irrelevant to my interests until I started hearing about his policy of being a shitheel.
pachyderm
There is a YouTube video of his son being arrested for DUI and he, Hulk, actually was a decent law abiding citizen. He knew his son was a mess and needed to stopped. But yeah he’s a POS … I can’t argue that.
CallThisAUsername
Tbh, I knew Hulk Hogan was a famous wrestler with the kind of risiculous mustache you see on seventy years old retired farmers in Co Kerry... And that was it, for three out of my four decades. I learned that he was a douchebag from anecdotes and tidbits I found while reading about André the Giant.
ThatNoPicklePeeThatNoPumpARum
I don't see anything wrong with making a movie about a bad person.
januarylover
Even if he had no idea what an asshat Hogan was before he was offered the role, you'd think he'd stumble upon some information about it when he researched the guy? Yeah. There's something about this situation that makes me side-eye Hemsworth just a little bit about putting his name on this one.
Babomonkey
I'm guessing that Hemsworth "stumbling on some information" might be one of the factors in the cancellation.
januarylover
Took him long enough! lmao
Stefnos
they should make it with Hulk Hogan playing himself... so it's just a movie about a sad old man trying to cling unto his youth and succes now that it's all gone xD
bokodasu
They already made The Wrestler. Good movie, doesn't need any Hogan in it.
Stefnos
i just want it to be a movie that make Hogan sad, he deserves it ^^
initforthespecs
Don't worry brother! I'm sure Kurt Cameron is free lol
GeneralDisorder
Isn't he busy doing young earth creationist propaganda?
initforthespecs
I'll bet you a shiny nickel who he's voting for
GeneralDisorder
He's voting for god. I'm not sure which god. Probably a malevolent one.
tachyx
I think you meant that Hercules dope.
oozabooza
Kirk
initforthespecs
The duck i says
Lawow74
I was tastin' the soup two hours after I et it.
happywalker
Vloudimestre
Five bucks is five bucks.
fruust
what the fuck.
MisterLemons
jherazob
I know i'm gonna regret asking, but who's the other guy?
ThatNoPicklePeeThatNoPumpARum
Since no one really answered. He's a nobody but he has a Nazi symbol (SS Bolts) tattooed on his arm. Hence he took a selfie with a visible Nazi.
MisterLemons
Who is he? He left society and gave up his identity when he affiliated himself with a group that actively abhors society.
I'm sorry, but we don't name garbage.
WarlockSniper
That is an insult to garbage, as garbage doesn't identify as a Nazi.
Being a Nazi is being in the lowest denomination a human can get.
axelfive
Dunno, but he's a nazi, so fuck that guy.
OppaGangnamPyle
Ok .. so you know he's a nazi. Someone asks who he is and you respond "idk, but he's a nazi" .. you gotta provide a bit more than that.
BeefiusMaximus1
Why don't you?
Ausmerica
He literally has two Nazi emblems tattooed on his arm, man. You don't have to know who he is to be certain that he's a Nazi.
OppaGangnamPyle
He has one definite symbol. Out of context a simple iron cross is not considered a hate symbol. Accompanied with a swastika denotes it as a hate symbol. Little piece of trivia from Wikipedia.
YouShallCuddleTheMath
He inferred he's a nazi from the tattoos on his arm.
OppaGangnamPyle
Yeah I failed to notice the SS tattoo somehow. Complaint retracted
MapleSyrupMafia
The SS logo and the Iron Cross is just the right amount of infos you need on this guy. As far as I could find in a 5 minutes search, he's an unidentified pos with an identified pos.
TheMoonBnuuy
Long awaited? This is the first time I've actually heard of it. And I wouldn't have been awaiting it had I heard of it sooner. Rolling my eyes sure. The guy lost relevance when those tapes of Terry Bollea being racist leaked. That's Hulk Hogan's real name btw. Hulk Hogan is just a character he plays
APassingPlasticBag
I honestly thought he died a while ago
GratuaCuun
Only the good die young...
MCpeepantz
"I am a bad American, fight for the rights of cis white men. Video tapes are not my friend, Ill sue anyone and make a trend." Or however the song goes.
Rogerwilco1974
7hatsBollocks
He was forced to admit in court that hulk hogan may have a 10inch dick, but Terry certainly doesn't.
jherazob
xj4low
Don't forget hos racism when he found out his daughter was in an inter-race relationship.
MadamPuddifoot
Didn't his son kill a guy with his car?
xj4low
Honestly? I don't know. I don't follow him. He's an 80's and early 90's raslin star.
Warune
Wasn't he a snitch that ruined WWE's chances at unionizing?
spiderjohn36
Yep. Jesse Ventura attempted to talk other talent into forming a wrestlers' union, and Hulk ratted him out to Vince McMahon.
ConspiratorM
And as I recall Jesse was already in SAG, so he had insurance and other benefits, he was really just looking out for the other wrestlers, and Hogan screwed them all over.
nopo
Yeah, same here. I havent payed much attention to Hogan since the 90s when he was cool.
reichstein
Plus he's just such an immensely unappealing character/person.
I can't imagine actually paying money to see him.
wadatahmydamie
I grew up during the peak of Hulkamania. He was such a huge star that other fictional characters in TV shows looked up to him as an idol.
It wasn’t common knowledge that he was such a piece of shit
reichstein
I was born in 83, so I suppose I must have been too late and only seen him when he was in decline.
Then again, a quick google tells me his peak was around 92. So maybe it's more that I just find him really grating and obnoxious, regardless of what the general perception of him is.
wadatahmydamie
He was in one of the three TV shows where a feral wolf child is kidnapped and thrown into the ocean in a locked box, only to be rescued by the show’s hero. The other two were Manimal and The Wizard (no connection to the movie of the same name)
pfunk81
Peter Thiel financed his lawsuit against gawker media, after they published unflattering stories on the both of them. Gawker went under as a result.
pfunk81
Szechuan: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/&ved=2ahUKEwjNgrySnIuIAxXLKFkFHUP1OtUQFnoECDgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2H_tYtayFyIpD8Sd0g9Xl3
wadatahmydamie
Gawker posted revenge porn and refused to take it down after a court order.
The story about Thiel and Hogan taking them down is on par to hearing about a klansman getting beaten into a coma by a couple of pedophiles
Badprenup
To be clear, Gawker is not a victim in this story. Gawker was a scummy gossip rag of a blog that deserved to be taken down for doing dozens of shitty things, including obtaining and posting sex tapes without consent and refusing to take them down, making a separate website designed to assist in stalking celebrities, and a lot more.
This wasn't the right wing crushing orphans, this was shitty monsters vs shitty monsters.
Tumescentpie
I just wish that all of the parties in that lawsuit would be better humans. Like wake up tomorrow with an outlook on life that is nearly the direct opposite of the evil shit they are all known for