Vince McMahon scripted series being developed

[Pennywise]

Vince McMahon Scripted Series In The Works With Blumhouse TV & WWE – Deadline

Blumhouse Television and WWE are grappling with a scripted series about wrestling chief Vince McMahon.

The two companies have teamed up to develop The United States of America Vs. Vince McMahon – the first scripted portrayal of the Chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.

It is the latest project featuring the colorful character – WWE is working with The Ringer’s Bill Simmons to produce a multi-part docuseries about McMahon for Netflix.

The United States of America Vs. Vince McMahon will delve into WWE during the 1990s, at the time Rupert Murdoch had purchased the New York Post. For years, Post writer Phil Mushnick regularly hammered McMahon in his column with headlines like ‘Legislators Give WWE A Free Pass On ‘Roids’ and ‘McMahon Skips Through the Cemetery’ eventually capturing the attention of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

In 1994, the U.S. government indicted McMahon for allegedly supplying anabolic steroids to WWE talent. McMahon, with his liberty at stake, two school-aged children at home and with WWE on the brink of bankruptcy, refused to take a plea deal. Ultimately, McMahon stood trial and was acquitted unanimously by a jury of his peers and went on to build a multi-billion-dollar global sports entertainment empire.

McMahon, Kevin Dunn, WWE Executive Producer & Chief of Global Television Distribution and Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold will serve as executive producers on the project.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Goddamn pal!

I can’t wait to see this and how they revise history to make Vince look like a victim and sympathetic.

LOL @ two school aged children. By that time Shane and Stephanie were grown.

 

[Pennywise]

Goddamn pal!

I can’t wait to see this and how they revise history to make Vince look like a victim and sympathetic.

LOL @ two school aged children. By that time Shane and Stephanie were grown.

Makes sense since he is producing.

Wonder who they should get to play him.

 

[Sawyer]

The crimes being committed aren’t comparable, but isn’t this a little bit like if the OJ Simpson season of American Crime Story was produced by… OJ Simpson?

 

[TheFuture]

The crimes being committed aren’t comparable, but isn’t this a little bit like if the OJ Simpson season of American Crime Story was produced by… OJ Simpson?

That's what makes it sound absolutely awful.

Can you imagine the ego of the man and his stooge Kevin Dunn that they would produce something like this? Tone deaf doesn't cover it.

 

[Kane52630]

Having Vince produce this is a mistake, but I would be lying if I said I'm not looking forward to this. Casting him will be extremely tough...

 

[Chip Chipperson]

too bad Dennis Quaid isn't 10-15 years younger, he'd be perfect

 

[Pennywise]

too bad Dennis Quaid isn't 10-15 years younger, he'd be perfect

Ooh, that would have been great!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Yeah, this should be very... honest.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

too bad Dennis Quaid isn't 10-15 years younger, he'd be perfect

Hell he still could pull it off.

He kinda resembles Vince, three facelifts ago.

 

[Erik20]

Why would WWE make a show about this? Seems like you would just be opening yourself up to some bad press, bringing this story to everyone's attention again. I thought they were planning on doing a bio pic of Vince?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Why would WWE make a show about this? Seems like you would just be opening yourself up to some bad press, bringing this story to everyone's attention again. I thought they were planning on doing a bio pic of Vince?

To control the narrative, but mostly because Vince wants to branch out and he thinks this is a good way to do it. He really seems to hate wrestling these days. Won't even call the company a wrestling one.

 

[Erik20]

To control the narrative, but mostly because Vince wants to branch out and he thinks this is a good way to do it. He really seems to hate wrestling these days. Won't even call the company a wrestling one.

Still seems like a weird move since nobody is talking about it. Why drag it up? Or perhaps something is coming out soon... And yeah, last time I saw Vince on Raw/SmackDown? he didn’t look that great...

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Still seems like a weird move since nobody is talking about it. Why drag it up? Or perhaps something is coming out soon... And yeah, last time I saw Vince on Raw/SmackDown? he didn’t look that great...

He is looking a bit rough.

If I had to guess, someone convinced him the juiciness of the conversation would intrigue enough people that he was sold it was a good idea. A bit like the XFL documentary.

 

[Pennywise]

Whoever plays McMahon must meet the requirement of being absolutely jacked!!

 

[Kane52630]

He doesn't really get jacked until later on...especially during his durag days.