Chris Benoit Life Bio Film in Works

[jolldan]

Chris Benoit biopic coming soon!
Based on Matthew Randazzo’s book Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit and the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry. Sarah Coulter, who will write the script said the movie will cover Benoit's life from his time training with the Hart family through his career, including the murder of his son and wife followed immediately by his suicide. Coulter has previously said that the film will go inside the mind of Benoit from the start of his drug abuse after the death of Eddie Guerrero on forward. Several WWE stars including Triple H and Vince McMahon will be portrayed in the film. What are your thoughts? Will you see the movie?

 

[Teelie]

It's a good and important story to be told. Not sure if a movie is the way to go however.

 

[X Knight]

have no interest in this.

 

[Duke]

have no interest in this.

Seconded.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

This could go either way I'll wait to see who's involved first before I pass any judgement.

 

[DorneyDave]

No interest to see this.

I don't want to see this story put to film.

 

[Godzilla2000]

I have an interest in seeing this completely. I think a story of the dark side of wrestling like this needs to be told so that fans can see the reality of what they're money promotes. Too many fans see only the bright lights and not all the shady things that go on behind the scenes. Too soon we forget these things like the premature deaths of many wrestling stars way before their time, many quite violently like Owen Hart.

 

[Teelie]

The concern is how this will be presented. Will they show it as the dark side of the wrestling profession or will they completely side-step it in favor of showing this as only Chris Benoit's problem and not a wider one that has afflicted the entire industry? There are many other ways this can be addressed without a movie that capitalizes on his life.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I have no interest in this. But because I'm a huge wrestling fan, I just might check it out.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I'm intrigued, I'll go that far. Since wrestling by nature is an exploitative industry, nobody who regularly watches wrestling should criticize this movie for being exploitative.

 

[Teelie]

I don't watch it myself but my brother used to so I have a passing knowledge of some of the personalities from it, mainly the mid 80's through late 90's. I never kept up with it so much as absorbed information when it came up.

I remember Benoit's murder/suicide and I remember Bret Hart and a lot of the others who where injured or killed during that roughly 15 year period. I still occasionally will run across information on them but even someone as nominally involved as me knows how badly they exploit these guys.

I would not want to see them further exploited in a film that might just further that exploitation or misrepresent it as something only individuals have suffered, or that it is something in the past, instead of ongoing like it is now.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

If Stone Cold Steve Austin is in this movie, they'd better have Tom Hardy play him!

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I haven't watched wrestling all that much in the past 8 years. I'll most likely check this out anyway.

 

[MrMaooz]

I stopped watching wrestling like 5 or 6 years ago, but I was pretty shocked by Benoit's death.

 

[Dr. Evil]

The filmmakers may have to make up names of promotions and wrestlers because there's no way that the WWE will use their name for this movie.

So in other words, he'll be wrestling in the World Wrestling Association against the likes of Joe Bradford Layton, Double H, Chris Jared and Kirk Angel and giving Eduardo Gomez a bearhug at the end of Wrestlefest 20.

 

[jacobed]

Eh no interest. Every fan knows the dark side of wrestling. Much prefer this to be a documentary not a movie. Dumb idea

 

[Team Andino]

I've heard rumor about this for a few years, I can't imagine it going over well. I feel like it's an important story to tell to learn from, but this project just doesn't sound like the best way to display it to bring it back into the spotlight. Can't imagine they'll have any access to names or anything that is owned by WWE.

 

[zeroapoc]

I'll give it a watch.

 

[dude stannis]

I think the most accurate portrayal of the wrestling industry is a Wolf of Wall Street style biopic of Vince McMahon.

 

[Thundarr]

Wasn't there already a thread devoted to this movie?

As much as I love wrestling, I don't think this movie is the best idea. And I agree that Vince McMahon and the WWE probably won't allow them to use the names and likenesses of any of their Superstars.

I think a biopic about Mick Foley, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, or Owen Hart would be far better received both by the WWE and by the general audience.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

I really do not want a Feature Film about Chris Benoit...
After He killed his own Family I lost all respect for that guy.
I believe this is a really Bad Idea.

Eh no interest. Every fan knows the dark side of wrestling. Much prefer this to be a documentary not a movie. Dumb idea

This.

 

[jolldan]

The filmmakers may have to make up names of promotions and wrestlers because there's no way that the WWE will use their name for this movie.

So in other words, he'll be wrestling in the World Wrestling Association against the likes of Joe Bradford Layton, Double H, Chris Jared and Kirk Angel and giving Eduardo Gomez a bearhug at the end of Wrestlefest 20.

Not sure if this is true dude, apparently there already lining people up to play vince mcmanon and a younger triple h.

Everyone seeming a bit down on it because its obviously a tragic story but one that needs to be told.

 

[Teelie]

I really do not want a Feature Film about Chris Benoit...
After He killed his own Family I lost all respect for that guy.
I believe this is a really Bad Idea.

He did so because of brain injuries he sustained from wrestling. It's not as simple as just up and killing them. He was not in his right mind at all. I've already been through that debate once, back when it initially happened so I don't feel he need to go through it again.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Can't imagine they'll have any access to names or anything that is owned by WWE.

The WWE might not have a leg to stand on in that regard. If the movie is based on a book, and the book is considered a work of journalism (albeit sensationalist yellow journalism) you don't need permission to mention the WWE and some of its people by name.

Remember they didn't need to get permission from CBS or Lorillard Tobacco to make The Insider. They didn't need Ford Motors permission to make Flash Of Genius. They didn't need Al Qaida's permission to make Zero Dark Thirty.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

He did so because of brain injuries he sustained from wrestling. It's not as simple as just up and killing them. He was not in his right mind at all. I've already been through that debate once, back when it initially happened so I don't feel he need to go through it again.

I see. But still...