Killing Gawker: Everything we know about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Hulk Hogan movie
What will you do when Hulk Hogan and a Silicon Valley investor with a bone to pick come at you? Audiences will find out for themselves sometime in the future when Kill GawkersThe upcoming book adaptation produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck is coming out. The film, which focuses on Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media after the outlet published excerpts from a sex video with the legendary WWE and WCW wrestlerwill bring to light one of the craziest wrestling and pop culture stories of the 21st century.
There is already a lot of information about some aspects of the production, including all the major Hollywood talent working behind the scenes, the book the film is based on, and much more. Let’s dive into this highly anticipated and long-in-the-making Hogan/Gawker film.
What is the release date of The Killing Gawker?
There are NO Kill Gawkers Release date from August 2024so you can have the idea of watching the Hulk Hogan movie on the Cinema program 2024. There is a possibility that we will do this at some point in the 2025 Moviesbut we should not get too carried away at this point.
However, crazy and unexpected things happen all the time in the world of professional wrestling, and the same goes for wrestling-related projects like Kill Gawkers. But seriously, we are very excited to learn more about the film’s release and will share any information that is available with readers.
The cast of The Killing Gawker
Just like reading professional wrestling “trash papers,” there were some big rumors surrounding the Kill Gawkers Among them is one that Ben Affleck is said to play Hulk Hogan in the legal drama. When discussing the film in August 2024, The Hollywood Reporter wrote that according to media reports, Affleck was in talks for the lead role, but no final decision had been made on the casting.
We’d love to see Affleck wearing the Hulkster’s signature black bandana in court and explaining the differences between Hogan the wrestler and Terry Bollea the human… bro! We’ll learn more about the casting in the coming weeks and months as more details are announced.
What is “Killing Gawker” about?
When Kill Gawkers Premiering sometime in the future, it will document the massive legal battle between Hogan and Gawker Media, which, according to The Hollywood Reporter, ended with Gawker having to pay the retired wrestler $31 million (the original verdict was $140) and shutting down operations. This all stems from a 2012 article in which Gawker published Parts of a sex video with Hogan, who was allegedly filmed without his knowledge six years earlier.
The process was famously financed by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, who New York Times Thiel reportedly had a vendetta against the website after he was outed in a blog in 2007. According to THR, Thiel was a key figure in Kill Gawkersand we can only assume that this will also apply to Gawker founder Nick Denton.
“Killing Gawker” is based on Ryan Holiday’s 2018 non-fiction book “Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue.”
Like many other courtroom dramas, Kill Gawkers is based not only on a real case, but also on a critically acclaimed book about one of the craziest wrestling sagas outside the ring in modern history. The production by Affleck and Damon is an adaptation of the non-fiction book by Ryan Holiday, Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intriguewhich was first published in 2018. A paperback version published by Penguin Random House in 2019 was released with a different subtitle (A true story about power, sex and a billionaire’s secret plan to destroy a media empire), but the text remains the same throughout.
Holiday’s book was well received by critics and readers alike and even found a place on NPR’s Book Concierge List of the best books of 2018. In the meantime New York Times described the work as “captivating” in a February 2018 review.
Gus Van Sant to direct Killing Gawker
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck will be in their Hunting for good will Director when it comes to Kill Gawkersas diversity has reported that Gus Van Sant will direct the project. While Van Sant isn’t a huge wrestling fan (at least not that we know of), he brings decades of experience behind the camera when it comes to telling complex and deep stories.
Over the years, Van Sant has led projects such as Drugstore Cowboy, My own private Idahothe already mentioned Hunting for good willAnd MilkHe received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for the latter two films. Kill Gawkers will be his first film since 2018 Don’t worry, he won’t get far on foot.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Charles Randolph wrote the screenplay for “The Killing Gawker”
When it comes to adaptation conspiracy in Kill GawkersThese tasks will fall to Charles Randolph, according to Deadline. Randolph is a talented screenwriter with an impressive track record and won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The big short filmAdam McKay’s star-studded dramedy about the 2007–2008 financial crisis, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Michael Lewis.
Randolph’s other feature films include bomb, Love and other drugs, The interpreterAnd The life of David Gale.
Todd Phillips has been planning another Hulk Hogan film for years
Kill Gawkers is not the only Hulk Hogan film currently in the works, as Todd Phillips has been planning a film based on the life of the legendary wrestler for some time. Back in February 2019 The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the director behind the hangover And joker Movies was working on a biopic for Netflix about the famous wrestler and Chris Hemsworth was supposed to wear the red and yellow spandex suit for the role of the Hulkster.
But after years of developing the project, Hemsworth gave a somewhat disappointing update in May 2024 Screenrant Interview where he said he would cooperate if he got the “green light,” and the key word in this scenario is “if.” We’ll just have to wait and see.
Well, expect to hear much more about Kill Gawkers in the coming weeks and months. But if you want to try some wrestling in the meantime, there are some upcoming WWE events that should be enough.
